ayatollah khomeini
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May: Defining violent extremism down
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There are Iranian moderates; Rafsanjai was not among them Death, where is thy sting? For Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, it certainly didn’t come from the mainstream media. The 82-year-old former Iranian president died of a heart attack earlier this month. The New York Times called him an “influential voice against hard-liners” and “a main voice…
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May: The search for elusive Iranian moderates
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They won’t be found among the ruling clerical elite Ruhollah Khomeini was a man of religious faith and revolutionary fervor, committed to waging jihad until, in his words, “the writ of Islam is obeyed in every country in the world.” But when he took power in Iran in 1979, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N,…
