Quotes about Ayatollah Khomeini

Gary Sick

Ahmed Khomeini, son of Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini is the Mrs. Wilson of modern Iran.

During the last year of Woodrow Wilson's presidency, unknown to the public, First Lady, Edith Bolling Wilson, virtually ran the administration because of her husband's illness and debilitation. In the latter months of the Ayatollah’s life, he was non functional and his son was running the government without telling the public.

Jimmy Carter

If I wasn't President, I'd be out on the streets myself and would probably take a swing at any Khomeini demonstrator I could get my hands on.

In the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, Iranian "students" and other agents were demonstrating against the United States in Washington and other U. S. cities. The President prevailed upon District of Columbia officials not to grant a permit to the Iranian demonstrators lest some would be attacked by irate Americans. If this were seen on international television might bring harm to the American hostages in Iran:

Salman Rushdie

In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.

Salman Rushdie

The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.

Noam Chomsky

In 1979, Iranians carried out an illegitimate act: They overthrew a tyrant that the United States had imposed and supported, and moved on an independent path, not following U.S. orders.

Alexander Haig

Prior to his takeover of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini was camping near Paris, giving daily news conferences to a fawning international press corps without a murmur of complaint to France from the United States about the disaster it was coddling in the incredibly naive liberal belief that this extremist cleric would be an improvement over the Shah.

Oliver North

I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance was a neat idea.

Salman Rushdie

The only thing worse than a bad review from the Ayatollah Khomeini would be a good review from the Ayatollah Khomeini.

Oriana Fallaci

Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.

Ruhollah Khomeini

After the Shah's departure from Iran, I will not become a president nor accept any other leadership role. Just like before, I limit my activities only to guiding and directing the people.

James Buchan

One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from British consular reports and intrepid travelogues is now awash with historical documents, letters, diaries, grainy video, weblogs and secret police files of questionable authenticity.

Oriana Fallaci

Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.

Erich Honecker

The name of Khomeini will always remain in the new chapter of Iranian history.

Kay Bailey Hutchison

We don’t like the Ayatollah either, but this may be a conflict between the Ayatollah Khomeni and Saddam Hussein.

Despite being a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, the senator seemed to be unaware that Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the ex-ruler of Iran, had died in 1989, 7 years earlier.

Hooman Majd

Iran is a huge country and much, much more sophisticated than most people imagine... It certainly has the potential to be at least the way Turkey is to most Americans.

Ayatollah Khomeini Quotes