Word: taleghani
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Dates: during 1979-1979
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...striking pilots and crew to pick up the revolution's most important passenger. The army then surrounded the airport with tanks and closed it "until further notice." The next day troops ordered away the crew and 2,000 people who had come to the airport with Ayatullah Mahmoud Taleghani, Khomeini's spokesman in Iran, to see the plane leave for Paris. The group turned and left, chanting contemptuously, "Death to the Shah...
...strikes and almost complete economic denial have affected the majority of the population. Paradoxically, the poorest seemed to be faring the best, perhaps because of their access to community food cooperatives and neighborhood organizations. When asked about the 'economic ruin' of his country, Tehran's Ayatullah Taleghani replied firmly: 'We do not mind at all that the economy is destroyed. In the West, the economy is above freedom. Here, freedom is now above the economy. After 50 years of living under the boot and heel of imperialism, we have no other purpose than achieving freedom...