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Article: Politics in Iran.(God's law)(Review)
- Article from:
- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- July 17, 1999
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God's law
KHOMEINI: LIFE OF THE AYATOLLAH. By Baqer Moin. I.B.Tauris; 360 pages; Pounds24.95.
OF ALL modern revolutions, Iran's was the most extraordinary. Not in that it happened: by 1979, with the shah's regime crumbling, violent change had become inevitable. What was astonishing, to most of the revolutionaries themselves, as well as to the outside world, was that the revolution swept away secular rule and the laws of men, replacing them with clerical rule and the laws of God. For this tremendous coup, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was alone responsible.
Baqer Moin, who runs the BBC's Persian service, has the insight and the knowledge to ...