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Article: WEAKNESSES SHOWING IN KHOMEINI'S REGIME EVENTS IN IRAN ARE CONFOUNDING WASHINGTON'S 'REALISTS'
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 26, 1988
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"There will not be enough lampposts to hang all the mullahs.
And if there is not enough rope, we will string them up with their
turbans. And if the men won't do it, the women will." This is the
prediction commonly made by members of the People's Mujahedeen of
Iran when they contemplate the overthrow of Ayatollah Khomeini's
religious dictatorship.
After the Mujahedeen fighting force, the National Liberation
Army, routed 14,000 of Khomeini's demoralized troops last week
along a 30-mile front inside Iran, capturing a billion dollars'
worth of military equipment and 1,500 prisoners, the Mujahedeen
vision of corrupt clerics dangling from lampposts can no longer be
dismissed as mere bravado.