TEHRAN-TABNAK, Jan 18– Richard Falk, the former UN Special Rapporteur for Palestine, says Ayatollah Khomeini was not opposed to the Shah’s entry to the US if it was not coupled with a push for an ...
Ayatollah Khomeini, an exiled cleric, capitalized on widespread discontent by portraying the Shah as an authoritarian dictator and promoting his vision of an Islamic Republic as a just alternative.