Word: shah
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...minority and Muslim fundamentalists, which has grown more strident with the rise of Islamic militancy. He announced a ban on ecclesiastical groups that "seek to spread political dissension," an obvious reference to Islamic demonstrations against both the peace treaty with Israel and the presence in Egypt of the former Shah of Iran. He assured the Copts that they had nothing to fear. Said Sadat: "Our Islam is not [the Ayatullah] Khomeini's Islam. Khomeini's revolution is not an Islamic revolution because murder, vengeance, and tampering with the bodies of the dead are alien to Islam." To show...
...death. When Banisadr denied Khalkhali's right to exercise judicial functions as chief narcotics investigator, the cleric openly defied him, forcing the President to back down. Earlier, the headstrong judge had already defied presidential orders by leading a group of Islamic zealots on a rampage that demolished the Shah's father's marble mausoleum...
Banisadr's problems are compounded by economic woes. Unemployment is currently about 30%, and industrial production is only at 30% of capacity. Daily oil output has sunk to about 2 million bbl., far below the 6 million bbl. produced under the Shah. Production threatened to fall even lower when a major pipeline in Kermanshah province was blown up, presumably by antigovernment Iranian Arabs...
...those maverick parties come to power, they would probably have to fear the Kremlin's wrath more than that of the defeated mullahs. In the words of a longtime Iranian Communist: "Moscow is willing to have any regime on its southern borders-Khomeini's, the Shah's, even Franco's." But "it will never tolerate an independent Marxist government...
Worst off is the biggest religious minority in the country, some 500,000 members of the Bahá'i faith, many of whom held important posts under the Shah. Khomeini's revolutionaries seized all official Bahá'i properties, and last fall a construction crew systematically tore down the House of the Bab in Shiraz, the holiest Bahá'i shrine...