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| an elderly Shiite cleric named Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. |
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| Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini |
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| whose religious rectitude and unyielding resistance made him the embodiment of opposition to the Shah and his regime and indeed to the character of Iran |
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| Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini |
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| was a figure in the opposition to the “White Revolution” (Shah’s reform program) |
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| Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini |
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| • His hatred of the Shah was matched only by his detestation of the US which he regarded as the main prop of the Pahlavi regime |
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| Overt opposition was becoming the part of the fabric of national life but he was determined to press ahead with liberalization |
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| was trying to modernize the country |
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| was losing his grip and Iran’s social fabric was unraveling |
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| As the US became more dependent on him, there was less willingness to risk his ire by trying to find out what was happening among the opposition that he despised |
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| With his departure, all of Tehran erupted into the kind of jubilation that had not been seen since the Shah’s own return in triumph in 1953 |
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| was Osco’s manager for capital planning and was the last Western man to leave from the Fields |
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| sought a moral rehabilitation of post-Watergate America and to micromanage the intricacies of the American machine and to show his command over both big issues and small details |
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| announced a decontrol of oil prices and a “windfall profits tax” on excess oil company earnings |
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| announced his own plan to make 2.5 million barrels of synthetic fuels by 1990 primarily out of coal and shale |
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| wanted to make changes to his Cabinet, to force the resignations of Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal and Health Secretary Joseph Califano |
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