After Khomeini. (Ayatollah Ruhollah Mousavi Khomeini) (editorial)

The Economist (US) | June 10, 1989 | Copyright

After Khomeini

Only slowly will Iran recover from his legacy

For ten turbulent years his black turban, white beard and stern beetle brow were a political icon, but one which meant very different things to friend and foe. To his admirers, Ayatollah Ruhollah Mousavi Khomeini was a symbol of Islamic purity and strength, and of a determination to protect Islamic ideals against what he saw as the tyranny of western political and cultural values. To his enemies, he became a byword for crude religious fanaticism and an irrational desire to turn the clock back to a ...

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