and dissatisfaction, 83– 84
and drugs, 87– 88
and economy, 87
and fundamentalists, 84, 85, 86– 87
and Khatami as president, 85, 86
and liberal tendency, 85, 86, 87
and quality of life, 87
and Rafsanjani as president, 82
and religion, 82– 89
and repression, 83–84, 86
and United States, 85– 86
and water supply, 87
and women, 84
Islamic Republic of Iran, and Khomeini,
57 – 67, 69– 80
and Ali Rajai as prime minister, 63,
65
and Bani Sadr as president, 63, 65,
66
and Bazargan as prime minister,
53 – 54, 59, 60, 62– 63
and Beheshti as prime minister, 63
and campaign against morally
undesirable people, 60
and cities, 69
and constitution, 60
and economy, 66, 69, 70
and factions, 57, 58–60, 61, 67
and foreign relations, 57, 76– 77
and hostage crisis in U.S. Embassy,
22, 61–63, 66, 78
and Iraq-Iran War, 63–65, 66, 72– 73
and Islamic codes of dress and
behavior, 60– 61
and Islamic Republican Party, 63,
65 – 66
and Israel, 57
and Khomeini’s role, 57–58, 60,
69 – 70, 73– 75
and land ownership, 69
and media, 61
and Mujahedeen, 65– 66
opposition to, 61, 65– 66
and political parties, 63, 65– 66
and population, 69
and president, 60, 63, 85
and purges, 58–59, 63, 65–66, 77
and repression, 58–59, 63, 65–66,
67, 71–72, 77, 83–84, 88
and Revolutionary Council, 63
and Revolutionary Guard, 65, 71
and Rushdie, 78– 79
and successor to Khomeini, 75, 82
and ulema,58, 59, 82, 84– 85
and vote on form of government,
59 – 60
Islamic Republican Party (IRP), 63, 65
Islamic Revolutionary Council, 53
Israel
and Islamic Republic of Iran, 57
and Khomeini, 35–36, 37, 39, 57,
76, 77
and support of Muhammad Reza
Pahlavi, 29, 32, 35–36, 39
Italy, Muhammad Reza Pahlavi fleeing
to, 29
Ja’far al-Sadiq, 38
jihad, 38
Judaism
and Islamic Republic of Iran, 57
and Khomeini, 78.
See alsoIsrael
Kahmanei, Hojjatoleslam Ali, 82
Kashani, Ayatollah Seyed Abol Qassem,
28
Keddie, Nikki R., 70
Keikal, Mohamed, 21
Kerbala, 11
Khadijah (wife), 21–22, 41, 70, 71
Khamenei, Ali, 42
Khatami, Muhammad, 85, 86
Khomein, Khomeini’s early years in,
19
Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah
and adoption of Khomeini as
surname, 22– 23
appearance of, 3, 19
and arrests by Iranian military, 38,
39
as Ayatollah, 37105
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