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Ayatollah Khomeini |
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| He was quoting Ayatollah Khomeini, whose successor as supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, set out his solution to the Middle East problem in 2000: "the annihilation and destruction of the Zionist state. Prime Minister Jaafari made an historic pilgrimage to Tehran in July 2005, along with eight of his cabinet ministers, to lay a wreath on the tomb of Ayatollah Khomeini. Takeyh does an excellent job of providing a concise account of the history that forged Iran into a modern theocracy with powerful revolutionary impulses, tracing a line that stops at such events as the American-backed coup against Muhammad Mossadeq in 1953, and the taking of hostages at the American embassy, which allowed Ayatollah Khomeini to turbo-charge the revolution and purge the moderates who stood in his way, to the ruinous war against Iraq in the 1980s. |
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