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...everyone is convinced that this tactic will bring down Khomeini or, if it does, that Rajavi will be the beneficiary. Rouhollah K. Ramazani, an Iran watcher at the University of Virginia, suggests that "Khomeini still has a tenacious hold on the people, especially the lower classes." French experts, who were among the first to predict the Shah's demise, contend that the Mujahedin may have suffered more at the Khomeini government's hands than they are willing to admit. Some Western intelligence sources doubt that the Mujahedin, though superbly organized, have as many followers as they claim. "They...
...ranking experts on Islamic law, at Cairo's ancient Al Azhar University, charges that the Ayatullah's "evil hunger for the death of a sick man is a towering crime under Islamic law." Islam "considers any sick or dying person with extreme humility," he says. Rouhollah Ramanzani, an Iranian scholar teaching at the University of Virginia, points out that according to the Islamic code, "if an undesirable individual enters into the Muslim domain, then that person must be protected and escorted to the boundaries of that domain to let him out safely...
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