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...West, censorship-by-riot may be the most insidious. We have been facing it at least since Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a kill-the-apostate decree against British novelist Salman Rushdie in 1989. It arose again in 2006...
...worry about the questions."Among Wallace's memorable exchanges was a 1979 interview with Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini shortly after his followers seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and took 52 Americans hostage."Imam," Wallace...
...of the last two decades, the West knew the word "fatwa" through the death sentence laid by Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on author Salman Rushdie for his novel "The Satanic Verses," which rather mildly satirized his own Muslim religion...
...met Grace Jones." The Iranian government ended its endorsement of the edict, issued by the late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in 1998. However, under Islamic law only the person who issued such a decree can revoke it. Iranian hard-line...
...spreads like a small city from a vast shrine where the architect of Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, is buried. The graves are marked by low marble gravestones, or small stone mausoleums carved with names and dates...
...1980-88 war. Its internal politics continue to be a fight between the hard-line mullahs who succeeded Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and the more liberal elected government of President Mohammad Khatami. The United States has to be careful not to...
...figures among the contenders. Time's top 100 of the century included Graham, Pope John Paul II, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa, and Bill Wilson of Alcoholics Anonymous. Notable omissions...