Word: pahlavis
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...serious terrorist bombing in Tehran since 1982, when more than 60 people were killed in an explosion at the central telephone and telecommunications center. Two callers to news agencies claimed responsibility for the latest action: the Arya group, a Paris-based collection of exiles who want to restore the Pahlavi monarchy, and a spokesman for the previously unheard-of Unit of Martyr Khalafi. No matter who was to blame for the blast, it was an indication that the five-year-old regime of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini still faces bitter opposition inside Iran...
...matter is crucial because Khomeini has come to realize how little he can afford to antagonize the bazaari, the prosperous and traditional merchants who helped finance his overthrow of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. Four years ago the Ayatullah sneered that "economics matters to donkeys." By now, he has been heard to confess, "If the bazaar opted out of the Islamic Republic, the republic would face defeat...
...Muslims' dilemma remained, as has the Jews' dilemma in Israel; should one stand up for religious principles, or should one continue to dissimulate in the face of a government that is at least nominally devout. For Shi'its, the issue came to a head with the despotism of the Pahlavi dynasty in the last half-century. Finally, in 1963, a leading Shi'ite mullah declared the end of taqiya. The time had come, said Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, for Shi'its to stop rationalizing injustice...
...army of neighboring Iraq. Late last year, Khomeini added the Soviet Union to his list. It was a startling switch, especially for U.S. policymakers, who have been anxious about the possibility that the Soviets would make mischief in Iran ever since the fall of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. As a State Department analyst noted last week, "Khomeini seems to be living up to his 'neither East nor West' promise...
Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi tolerated little political opposition at home, but allegations were increasingly heard in the U.S. that his secret police, SAVAK, were brutalizing Iranian citizens. The Shah was a likable man-erect without being pompous, seemingly calm and self-assured in spite of the tear gas incident, surprisingly modest in demeanor. The air of reticence in his first conversations with me could not have been caused by his unfamiliarity with American Presidents. I was the eighth he had known...