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[Rick Steves' Travel as a Political Act Blog] Iran's "Revolution of Values": Seeing the Ayatollah Khomeini from the Iranian perspective was jarring: Rather than the impression I'd long held ”” of a threatening, unsmiling ideologue ”” many Iranians consider Khomeini a lovable sage...unpretentious, approachable, and a defender of traditional values. After the Shah's excesses and corruption, locals seemed to overlook Khomeini's own brutal tactics.

[Amnesty Blogs] Amnesty Blogs: Women's Action Network Blog : Women of Iran, 31 ...: Iranians had just woken up to the startling changes in every aspect of their lives through various decrees Ayatollah Khomeini was announcing in his sermons on daily basis. Women were preparing to celebrate their newly acquired freedom unaware that freedom was a far cry from reality.

[News, Opionion and Features from Asharq Alawsat English Edition] Iran and the UN: The Coming Showdown Asharq Alawsat Newspaper ...: The head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Commission, Ali-Akbar Salehi, an MIT graduate, claims that enrichment up to 80 per cent is "within our reach in a few months." Despite continued technical difficulties, the Islamic Republic may well be able to produce enough highly enriched uranium at its Natanz facility to build half a dozen or so atomic bombs within the next 18 to 24 months. It is also building a new plant in Arak to build warheads using plutonium.

[Zenithmax's Blog] OBAMA PARALLELS HITLER & KHOMEINI: “During 1979, when the Iranians were tired of the dictatorial regime of the late Shah, they embraced Khomeini, not because they wanted Islam, but because he promised them change. The word in the street was, ”˜anything is better than the Shah.’ They found their error when it was too late.”

[Fourmilog: None Dare Call It Reason] Reading List: The Persian Night (Fourmilog: None Dare Call It Reason): With Iran continuing its march toward nuclear weaponsand long range missiles unimpeded by an increasinglyfeckless West, while simultaneously domestic discontentover the tyranny of the mullahs, economic stagnation,and stolen elections are erupting into bloody violence onthe streets of major cities, this book provides a timelylook at the history, institutions, personalities, andstrategy of what the author dubs the “tripleoxymoron”: the Islamic Republic of Iran which,he argues, espouses a bizarre flavour of Islam which is notonly a heretical anathema to the Sunni majority, but alsoat variance with the mainstream Shiite beliefs whichpredominated in Iran prior to Khomeini's takeover; anything but arepublic in any usual sense of the word;

[Avid Editor's Insights] THIS DAY March 24 « Avid Editor's Insights: Weiss wrote that Ahmadinejad’s statements were not “indicative of anti-Jewish sentiments”, but rather, “a yearning for a better, more peaceful world”, and “re-stating the beliefs and statements of Ayatollah Khomeini, who always emphasized and practiced the respect and protection of Jews and Judaism.”

[The Platform] U.S. can best advance Iranian justice from the sidelines | The ...: The idea that an Islamic street uprising ”” led remotely by the messianic Ayatollah Ruhollah Mousavi Khomeini, who had lived in exile since 1964 ”” could succeed against so modern and totalitarian a state bordered on the preposterous. President Jimmy Carter spent New Year's .

[Stand Like A Rock] Iran's Unhappy Anniversary: That wasn’t good enough for the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeni, then living in exile in France. On February 1, he flew a chartered jet back to Iran where he was greeted by millions of supporters, many of whom believed he was, quite literally, the messiah, the “hidden imam” awaited by the Shi’a faithful for centuries.

[Joel Rosenberg's Weblog] GRANDSON OF KHOMEINI FIERCELY DENOUNCES REVOLUTION: The “mother of ...: On September 26, 2003, the grandson of the Ayatollah Khomeini””a highly respected Shia cleric in his own right””calmly stood up before an audience in Washington, D.C. He looked out over the crowd, took a deep breath, and then, speaking through an interpreter, denounced the Islamic Revolution, said it was time to usher in a new era of freedom and democracy in his country, and urged the Bush administration to mobilize the American people to overthrow the Iranian regime much as Winston Churchill had mobilized the British to destroy Adolf Hitler.

[the Centrist] the Centrist » Blog Archive » Article: Will the 12th Come on the ...: What is a twelve you ask, according to La Guardia 1/14/06 Barebart TV via Drudge Report: “The most remarkable aspect of Mr Ahmadinejad’s piety is his devotion to the Hidden Imam, the Messiah-like figure of Shia Islam, and the president’s belief that his government must prepare the country for his return”¦All streams of Islam believe in a divine saviour, known as the Mahdi, who will appear at the End of Days. A common rumour –

[ShrinkWrapped] ShrinkWrapped: Thinking About the Unthinkable: "In seeking to acquire the [necessary] technology Iran must be patient and not be deterred by economic shortages: Divine, messianic support has been the determining factor in the success of the Iranian regime during the various trying periods which have plagued it since its foundation...We cannot be broken because of temporary difficulties, they will pass, and Muslims must be patient and not be deterred by material or economic shortages, because if they do, it may lead them to be separated from [Islam]."

[Commentary] Commentary » Blog Archive » A Response to Andrew Sullivan: Or is it a messianic power with an eschatological ideology and the pretension to conquer the world on behalf of “The One and Only True Faith”? Khomeini built a good part of his case against the Shah by claiming that the latter was .

[JCMENA | Journal] JCMENA | Journal » Blog Archive » Reason and Revelation in the ...: To highlight the aforementioned ideological split, this paper will discuss the differences between Khomeini and another leader of the Revolution, Ayatollah Mahmoud Taleghani. Taleghani played an integral role in the Revolution as chair of the Revolutionary Council, but became disillusioned with the direction of the fledgling government.[1] He even boycotted Revolutionary Council meetings and warned Khomeini against a “return to despotism” months before his 1979 death.[2] Though the clerics agreed that the Qur’an was the revelation sent from God to Mohammad and that Iran’s government should be based in this revelation, they disagreed on the appropriate relationship between Qur’anic revelation and human intellect.

[Therearenosunglasses's Weblog] The Death of Zia-Ul-Haq « Therearenosunglasses's Weblog: The Quranic hudood laws based on a very strict literalist interpretation were actually first framed in Arabic by King Faisal’s adviser (who also headed the World Muslim Council) and adopted in contravention of the recommendations by the constitutional advisory body, Council of Islamic Ideology.14 The full extent of Saudi “help” is not known in this very delicate period for Zia who had referred in public to the “empty coffers” left behind by the socialist government of prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto - the popular Shia politician he hanged in 1979.

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