Schlagwort: Iranian Revolution
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Peter Taaffe: The Church and the Mosque – is there a Religious Revival?
(Militant No. 448, 23 March 1979 p. 11 [I think we would today not use the term ‚Islamic church‘]) The first of three articlesBy Peter Taaffe A vast crowd of three million people turned out to greet Ayatollah Khomeini when he returned to Iran. One and a half million people welcomed the Pope when he…
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Militant: Iranian Fiasco
[Editorial, Militant no. 501, p. 2] The abortive attempt to rescue the 50 American hostages from the embassy in Tehran was a desperate measure on the part of Carter. The President himself had earlier said that any such attempt would almost certainly lead to the death of the hostages. Yet clearly, the pressure of public…