Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
While developments such as these riled the Muslim leadership in Iran, they were part of Pahlavi’s plan for modernizing his natio ...
government’s weakening of Islamic influence in society and its ties with the United States. Looking back, some historians consid ...
an entire people to you, immortal Hero of History, founder of the world’s oldest empire, great liberator of all time, worthy son ...
grip on the nation he ruled. To some extent, he in fact played the tyrant’s role of which Khomeini accused him. For example, the ...
Setting the Stage for Revolution 5 http://www.ebook3000.com ...
A s we’ve seen, even before the Pahlavi era, some members of the ulema looked with skepticism and eventually with open contempt ...
over the explosive Palestinian issue. Khomeini accused Pahlavi of forming an unspoken alliance with the United States and Israel ...
Later works included several law books. These were not openly political in tone, but Khomeini took the opportunity to encour- ag ...
Escalation could hardly have been avoided. In March 1963, Twelver Shiites celebrated the anniversary of one of their martyrs, Ja ...
nothing to deserve persecution and death at the hands of the ruler, he said. “It seems to me that Yazid [Husain’s mortal enemy] ...
Mottahedeh. “He was now a national figure, known to peasants as well as to talabehs as a man who had dared to publicly oppose th ...
intellectual center in neighboring Iraq. It was a logical place for the ayatollah, located near the shrine of the prophet Muham- ...
Although he mainly campaigned for Islamic purity in his own country, Khomeini included his political and religious beliefs in a ...
The Shah’s Government Collapses 6 ...
L ate 1973 and 1974 was a boom time for members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). By forcing a hike i ...
economic dream. Within two years, Iran was reeling under crushing inflation—40 percent annually. Iran did not have the skilled w ...
socialist-oriented. Overall, it joined the many political entities opposing the Pahlavi regime. In 1975, Shah Pahlavi establishe ...
circumstances, the ayatollah believed his son’s death had been ordered by Shah Pahlavi and carried out by secret police. Even if ...
Members of the ulema nourished the increasingly violent protests, calling on working-class opponents of the government to go on ...
program to unite all classes of Iranians. He called for more political freedom, including the release of those jailed for politi ...
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