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...Originally an engineering professor, the soft-spoken Bazargan was imprisoned for his human-rights activism during the reign of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, making Bazargan a natural choice for Prime Minister of the provisional government formed after the Shah fled in 1979. But Bazargan's relationship with the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's Revolutionary Council soon deteriorated into a bitter power struggle, culminating in his resignation just nine months later...
Today, some might recall, is the fifth anniversary of the fatwa issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomenei against Salman Rushdie for his novel, The Satanic Verses. To call this date an anniversary, however, is to approach cognitive dissonance. It is an anniversary for which there are no gifts, no chocolates, no flowers no waltzes...
...reads a small card that booksellers across America and around the world will distribute with every purchase of books today Five years to the day after late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomenei proclaimed that the Indian born English author must die for slighting Islam in his novel. The Satanic Verses, the card serves to remind us of Salman Rushdie's Predicament...
Saturday was not the only time last week that Clinton used the symbolic power of the presidency to defend free speech. Earlier, Clinton met with author Salman Rushdie, whose 1989 book The Satanic Verses earned him a death sentence from Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. President Bush had shunned such meetings, with his press secretary derisively dismissing Rushdie as just another "author promoting his book...
...perfectly capable of presenting two faces to the outside world: the responsible, reasoned face that solicits Western loans and investments, and the rigid, ideological face that accepts murder and lies as tools of statecraft. "Iran is in a sense more dangerous today than it was under Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini," says a senior British diplomat. "Then the antagonism to the West was blatant. Now it is more nuanced...