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...aborted "Zionist-Iraqi-U.S." plot. According to President Abolhassan Banisadr, the conspirators intended to occupy two Iranian airbases and bomb a number of strategic targets. Among them: Khomeini's home north of Tehran, the Tehran International Airport and Faizieh religious school in the holy city of Qum. Tehran spokesmen charged that the plotters hoped to tell Iranians over radio and television that "the patriotic army of Iran has overthrown the rotten government of the mullahs," and then invite Bakhtiar back from his Paris exile to head a ruling military council...
...found the 28-year-old bachelor to be a good actor and attributed his release to his subtle performance as a man with a mental disorder. Others, more skeptical, deny that Queen had any talent. "The CIA gave him pills," said one unnamed source in the holy city of Qum. "I just hope they don't give me hepatitis. I'd prefer migraines...
Wearing his familiar black turban and cape, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini sat on the flat roof of his single-story house in Qum and waved impassively to thousands of followers jamming the narrow streets below. The occasion was the solemn Shi'ite religious holiday known as Arba'un. Many of the pilgrims ritualistically flogged themselves with small chains to the beat of drums and tambourines; others wore white shrouds, symbolizing their willingness to die for Islam. "The only leader is Khomeini!" chanted the multitude, as red-lettered posters proclaimed DEATH TO AMERICA. It was one of the Ayatullah...
...spiritual leader of Iran's revolution might indeed be feeling some strain. Even as he basked in the adulation of the mobs at Qum, armed Azerbaijani militants loyal to Ayatullah Seyed Kazem Sharietmadari were battling Khomeini's followers and Revolutionary Guards in the streets of Tabriz. Last week's outburst, the latest clash in a simmering Azerbaijani rebellion against the central government, left at least six dead and 100 wounded before Tabriz was brought under control by local police, army troops and Revolutionary Guards...
Seeing Laingen as an important liaison for possible future negotiations with Washington and anxious to shore up his own authority, Ghotbzadeh shrewdly referred the matter to Khomeini. Despite the entreaties of a student delegation that visited Qum, Khomeini maintained his silence-thereby tacitly backing his Foreign Minister and the Revolutionary Council, which had originally decided to "harbor" Laingen and two U.S. aides. Said a Ghotbzadeh aide with satisfaction: "I guess we have given the students an idea where the line should be drawn...