Belief Quote by Alexander Haig

“It was 2 pm on 20 July, and even though President Khameini had announced Iran’s acceptance of the ceasefire resolution three days earlier, Khomeini’s…

— Efraim Karsh

“So they did in 1978, a year after Shariati died, under a leader he might have condemned as a very model of clerical despotism…

— Pankaj Mishra

The freedom-lovers of the world mourn the sad demise of Imam Khomeini.

— Ruhollah Khomeini

Since Khomeini's death, the popular appeal of an Islamic state - and of fundamentalism - has surely dimmed. Thinkers still debate and warriors kill,…

— Ruhollah Khomeini

Today, I join King Abdullah in Paris to stand in solidarity with the people of France in their darkest hour...To stand in unity against…

— Queen Rania of Jordan

“Khomeini espoused a militant religious doctrine rejecting not only the Middle Eastern political order, but also the contemporary international system since both perpetuated an…

— Efraim Karsh

Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort…

— Oriana Fallaci

Ayatollah Khamenei actually is not the most powerful person in Iran. He does not make nuclear policy. He does not make security policy. He…

— Gary Sick

“Or take the opportunity offered to the United States following the attacks of September 11, 2001, when both Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Mohammed…

— Robert D. Kaplan

“Much of the public was convinced that the CIA was capable and willing to do so. Thus began the famous 444-day American hostage crisis.…

— Ervand Abrahamian

People don't realize that when Iranians marched against the shah, their goal was not to have a religious government take over. Everybody marched against…

— Firoozeh Dumas

“As he defended the book one evening in the early 1980s at the Carnegie Endowment in New York, I knew that some of what…

— Christopher Hitchens