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…politics may not be sexual, but all sex is political. Exhibit A is the revolution's father, the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Like all Shiite clerics aspiring to become a "source of emulation" (marja'’-e taglid), Khomeini spent the first part of his career meticulously examin...

…through may lie in bilateral U.S.- Iranian talks -- perhaps even a summit meeting between President Obama and Ayatollah Khomeini. For such a summit to be successful the United States would have to change its approach. Iran's supreme leader has made clear that Iran will not negoti...

in the time of Rafsanjani and it turned out to be just plays. After the Khomeini revolution

Khomeini spent the first part of his career meticulously

Khomeini was succeeded by the current supreme leader

who has remained loyal to Khomeini's vision for Iran

… including, of all things, vote- buying in 2009! Ahmadinejad was booed during his June 3 speech commemorating Ayatollah Khomeini’s death. Iran is characterized by what Farideh Farhi of the University of Hawaii recently termed “administrative chaos.” That’s not how you make a nuk...

…f domestic turmoil. 26 March 1979 Signature of the Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty in the White House. 1 April 1979 Ayatollah Khomeini proclaims the Islamic Republic of Iran after a national referendum. 2 April 1979 Prime Minister Begin visits Cairo. February 1980 Israel and Egypt exch...

… rice. But for a new Shi’ite militia calling itself Hizbollah – formed after the invasion and inspired by the Ayatollah Khomeini’s revolution in Iran – our continuing military presence was anathema. In November 1983, Hizbollah signalled its intentions when a truck bomber drove in...

…s competing goals tied to these different identities. Hezbollah's ideological commitment to Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's revolutionary doctrine of velayat-e fagih (guardianship of the jurist), which holds that a Shiite Islamic cleric should serve as the supreme head of...

…esort of Pattaya with local "escorts." When I asked the scion of a powerful cleric in Tehran how ostensible devotees of Khomeini's religious ideology are able to reconcile frequenting non-Muslim prostitutes and drinking alcohol, he quickly dismissed any religious obstacles. "The...

his administration faced no serious challenge within the Khomeinist movement establishment. Ahmadinejad also marked some success selling his doctrine of ""Iranian Islam"" as a substitute for the hotchpotch concocted by Ayatollah Khomeini. Translated into 30 languages

…o madness. If they are lucky, however, they live in an age where their crazy hopes catch onto some larger human hunger. Khomeini worried that the Shah would never fall. Lenin was preparing to abandon revolutionary politics in 1916. Jobs was told the iPhone could never be built as...

…th rice. But for anew Shiite militia calling itself Hizbollah — formed after the invasion and inspired by the Ayatollah Khomeini’s revolution in Iran — our continuing military presence was anathema. In November 1983, Hizbollah signalled its intentions when a truck bomber drove in...