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Political theorist and Princeton professor Miriam Kunkler described the interaction between religious and secular elements of the Iranian constitution as “complicated” during a talk Monday afternoon. Before a crowd of roughly 30 people in Rosenkranz Hall
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Khomeini's ideology and Iran's nationalist aspirations created a revolutionary, populist approach to the region's status quo. Bombastic claims of nuclear achievement, threats to
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LONDON (Reuters) - As tensions over Iran's nuclear program ratchet higher once again, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's aversion for the West remains a formidable barrier to any diplomatic solution. A visit by U.N. nuclear inspectors to Iran this w
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A currency exchange worker in Tehran, Iran, counts U.S. dollars in December while Iranian bank notes bearing the portrait of late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini sit stacked at right. The United States and the European Union signaled Friday that negot
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A currency exchange worker in Tehran, Iran, counts U.S. dollars in December while Iranian bank notes bearing the portrait of late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini sit stacked at right. WASHINGTON The United States and the European Union signaled Frida
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Part III: Restructuring the Regime and Abolishing the Presidency [MEMRI] By A. Savyon and Y. Mansharof* Introduction The present article, the last in the series on the schism within the Iranian leadership, focuses on the move by Iranian Supreme Leader Ay
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TEHRAN: Loyalists of Iran’s supreme leader, who is implacably hostile to the West and its drive to curb Tehran’s nuclear work, look set to triumph in Iran’s parliamentary poll at the expense of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a contest among hard-liners
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WASHINGTON — Twenty-three years ago this week, Iran’s self-appointed supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, broadcast a religious edict declaring that author Salman Rushdie and his publishers were “hereby sentenced to death.” The fatwa also called
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The key to unraveling the Islamic republic lies in understanding Iran’s perception of itself. More than any other Middle Eastern nation, Iran has always imagined itself as the natural hegemon of its neighborhood. The Persian empire shrank over the centur
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Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gestures towards the media before his meeting with Pakistan's Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani (not pictured) at the prime minister's residence in Islamabad February 16, 2012. TEHRAN (Reuters) - Loyalists of Iran's su
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21, 1988, he was congratulated by the Iranian regime. So, too, were the 19 Sunni "jihadis" from al-Qaida who carried out the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, killing nearly 3,000 on U.S. soil in the world's most horrific terror attack to date. WASHINGTON — Twe
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Iranian soldiers chant anti-Israeli and anti-U.S. slogans on the first day of celebrations marking the 33th anniversary of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's return from exile in Tehran on Feb. 1, 2012. Iranian soldiers chant anti-Israeli and anti-U.S. slogan
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The ayatollahs are not interested in a strong peace, but a big piece – of the planet, particularly the fuel-rich Middle East. When Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Iran from exile in 1979, he declared immediately that Iran was launching a jihad. U
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On February 14th, 1989, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini sent what surely must have been one of the blackest Valentine’s greetings of all time to novelist Salman Rushdie. Invoking somewhat dubious legal and theological authority—as a Twelver Shi’a, Khomei
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14 February 2012 Last updated at 10:01 ET On 14 February 2011, thousands of people across Iran took to the streets It has been a year since the leaders of Iran's opposition Green Movement were placed under house arrest. BBC's Persian's Mehrzad Kohanrouz
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Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas prime minister of the Gaza Strip, delivers a speech in front of portraits of the late Iranian revolutionary founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (left), and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a visit to Tehran on Satur
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ELHAM KHATAMI examines her complicated relationship with her ancestral homeland as the first American in her family Associated Press The Iranian diaspora loved it when a cardboard cutout of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was paraded last week to celebrate t
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Hundreds of thousands of Iranians carrying flags and banners in support of the Islamic regime celebrated nationwide the 33rd anniversary of the country's Islamic Revolution on Saturday. State television showed the people in Tehran and other cities swarme
About Ruhollah Khomeini
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Sayyid Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini (Persian: روح الله موسوی خمینی (help·info), pronounced [ruːh-ol-lɑːh-e muːsæviː-je xomejniː])(September 24, 1902 – June 3, 1989) was an Iranian religious leader and scholar, politician, and leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution which saw the overthrow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran. Following the... Full Article
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