Word: revolutionize
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More important, Abdelkarim Soroush, a leading intellectual of the anti-Shah revolution, has openly challenged the clergy's infallibility. "Religion is sacred," he said in an interview, "but the understanding and interpretation are not necessarily sacred." Religious interpretations, he said, "are like chemistry and mathematics. They are debatable." Khomeini's...
A. These terms -- moderate and extremist -- are your words. I believe I've been consistent from the very beginning. I'm a revolutionary figure; I was involved in the struggle and spent almost all the young years of my life in prison. In our culture both extremes are rebuked: we...
Q. Is support for the revolution as strong as it was five years ago?
Q. Are people for Rafsanjani or for the revolution?
A. If I turn my back on the revolution, the people will no longer support me.