Rastakhiz, 46
Razmara, Ali, 28
Regency Concil, 53
repression
and Islamic Republic of Iran after
Khomeini, 83–84, 86
and Islamic Republic of Iran under
Khomeini, 58–59, 63, 65–66, 67,
71 – 72, 77, 83–84, 88
Revolutionary Council, 63, 86
Revolutionary Guard, 65, 71, 84, 86
roads, and Islamic Republic of Iran,
87
Rushdie, Salman, 78– 79
Russia
and Persia, 12, 14, 76
and World War I, 14.
See alsoSoviet Union
Sadiqeh (mother), 19, 20
Safavid Dynasty, 12
Saikal, Amin, 52, 83
Satanic Verses, The(Salman Rushdie),
78 – 79
Saudi Arabia, and Khomeini, 76–77.
See alsoMecca
SAVAK, 29, 45, 48, 58– 59
SAVAMA, 86
Sayid Ahmed (grandfather), 19
Sayid Mustafa (father), 19– 20
Sciolino, Elaine, 51, 60, 69, 88
Selassie, Haile, 31
Seljuks, 10
“Shah-People Revolution.”See“White
Revolution”
shahs,12.
See alsoPahlavi, Muhammad Reza;
Pahlavi, Reza Shah
sharia(Islamic law), 11
Shariatmadari, Ayatollah Muhammed
Kazem, 46, 60, 66, 77
Sharif-Emami, Jafaar, 48–49, 50
Shawcross, William, 52, 59, 89
Shiism, 15– 16
and Iranian Revolution, 11–12, 17,
82 – 89
and Islamic Republic of Iran after
Khomeini, 82– 89
and Khomeini as leader, 5
and Khomeini’s education, 20– 21
and Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, 30
and opposition to Muhammad Reza
Pahlavi, 30–31, 32, 35, 46
and politics, 25, 35, 37
and Qom, 21– 24
and Reza Shah Pahlavi, 15
Sunnism versus, 11 – 12
and ulema, 12 – 14, 15–16, 32, 35, 37,
41, 48, 58, 59, 63, 82, 84–85.
See alsoIslam
Silk Route, 9
social justice, Khomeini on, 24– 25
South Africa, Reza Shah Pahlavi exiled
to, 16
Soviet Union
and Cold War, 16, 28
and Khomeini, 76– 77
and Persia, 14
and World War II, 16.
See alsoRussia
strikes, and protests against Muhammad
Reza Pahlavi, 51– 52
Sunnism, Shiism versus, 11 – 12
Tabriz, protests against Muhammad
Reza Pahlavi in, 47
Taleqani, Ayatollah Mahmoud, 46
Te h r a n
as capital of Persia, 12
Khomeini’s return to, 3– 4
Tehran Radio, 55
Thousand Nights and a Night, The
(The Arabian Nights), 9
Tobacco Rebellion, 13–14, 21
Trans-Iranian Railway, 15
Tudeh (Communist Party), 29, 45, 57,
58, 66
Tu r k e y
Khomeini exiled to, 3, 40
and Persia, 12
and World War I, 14
Turkomans, 10109
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