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  • The Ayatollah Khomeini only a few years ago.†   (source)
  • Moody had certainly thought against the ayatollah's government.†   (source)
  • They are used to living in a clandestine manner, probably under the shah as well as the ayatollah.†   (source)
  • Why would they risk the harsh penalties imposed by the ayatollah for any violation of Islamic law?†   (source)
  • The ayatollah's own agents, soldiers, police, and pasdar were everywhere.†   (source)
  • They were the Ayatollah's answer to the shah's Savak, the secret police.†   (source)
  • The Kurds had been hostile to the shah's government and were equally hostile to the ayatollah's.†   (source)
  • By day he is a successful businessman, outwardly supportive of the ayatollah's government.†   (source)
  • But I knew better than to believe any tale of splendor in the ayatollah's republic.†   (source)
  • I knew that I remained alive only at the whim of Moody and his ayatollah.†   (source)
  • The picture of the scowling Ayatollah Khomeini was relegated to the attic.†   (source)
  • On August 29, a massive car bomb exploded outside a Shiite mosque in Najaf and killed eighty people, including the revered and greatly loved Shiite leader Ayatollah Mohammad Baqir al-Hakin.†   (source)
  • Despite all our efforts, the suicide bombers just continued, young Iraqis convinced by the teachings of the extremist ayatollahs that the murder of their perceived enemies would open the gateway to paradise for them-that the three trumpets would sound and they would cross the bridge into the arms of Allah and everlasting happiness.†   (source)
  • Suffice it to say that as our enemies employ the services of such as the PLO and the Red Armies, the Ayatollah's fanatics and Baader Meinhof, we have mounted our own brigades.†   (source)
  • Each day he was in Skardu, emissaries from Baltistan's hundreds of remote villages sought him out with petitions for new projects, now that he had the Supreme Council of Ayatollahs' stamp of approval.†   (source)
  • "Parvi also said that Sheikh Mohammed, a religious scholar and rival of the sher of Chakpo, had, along with his son, Mehdi Ali, petitioned for a CAI school to be built in his village of Hemasil and written a letter to the Supreme Council of Ayatollahs in Qom, asking Iran's leading clerics, the ultimate authority to the world's Shia, to rule on whether the fatwa was justified.†   (source)
  • When the shah left Iran and, the following day, the Ayatollah Khomeini staged a triumphant return, Moody found cause for celebration.†   (source)
  • Moody had resisted for five years, but Hormoz, almost at once, decided to return to live under the government of the Ayatollah Khomeini.†   (source)
  • In most cases his American schooling provided prestige, but in the offices of the ayatollah's government he encountered some prejudice.†   (source)
  • "But this" he gestured to the horde of unsmiling Iranians scurrying through the streets of the ayatollah's Islamic Republic "is not what we wanted."†   (source)
  • We walked through dingy halls, past a huge picture of the scowling ayatollah, and countless posters depicting the glories of war.†   (source)
  • Happiness and joy were out of place during this wartime period of pain and suffering, said the ayatollah.†   (source)
  • A school system such as this could create an entire nation that would obey unquestionably, even to death, an ayatollah who served as the intelligence and conscience of the land.†   (source)
  • How could I-a Christian, an American, a woman dare to offer my explanation of the Koran over the views of Imam Reza, the Ayatollah Khomeini, Baba Hajji, and, indeed, my own husband?†   (source)
  • He told them that I hated the Ayatollah Khomeini, which was true and believable, and that I was an agent of the C.I.A. which was ridiculous, but served to show the depths of his craziness.†   (source)
  • From his exile in Paris, the Ayatollah Khomeini now began to issue harsh pronouncements against the shah in particular, and western influence in general.†   (source)
  • This sacred duty was most often performed by President Hojatoleslam Seyed Ali Khamenei (not to be confused with the Ayatollah Ruhollab Khomeini, who, as religious leader, outranks even the president), assisted by Hojatoleslam Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the speaker of the house.†   (source)
  • Half of the clan lived like Ameh Bozorg, oblivious to squalor, contemptuous of western customs and ideals, and clinging to their own zealous brand of the Ayatollah Khomeini's fanatical Shiite sect of Islam.†   (source)
  • Moody now drove to Alpena and spent Saturday and Sunday in conversation with Mammal, catching up on family matters, once again gushing over the Ayatollah Khomeini, slurring western-and particularly American-customs and morals.†   (source)
  • Then came a five-minute segment of Lebanese news because the Shiite Moslems in Lebanon are a strong and violent faction backed by Iran, loyal to the Ayatollah Khomeini and a three-minute wrap-up of world news, which meant some negative report about America.†   (source)
  • At first, from his comfortable vantage point nearly half a world away, he had felt secure enough to proclaim his zeal for the revolution and for the ayatollah's dream of turning Iran into an Islamic republic.†   (source)
  • The festival encompassed all of Islam, not merely Iran, and, therefore, political rhetoric this day was confined to isolated caucuses of Iranians who chattered happily about the ayatollah's successful attempt to centralize power. i remained aloof from those discussions, socializing instead with my wide circle of women friends who constituted a United Nations in miniature.†   (source)
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