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I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment-that is not the Islamic way. -- Naguib Mahfouz
The only thing worse than a bad review from the Ayatollah Khomeini would be a good review from the Ayatollah Khomeini. -- Salman Rushdie
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. -- 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. -- Oriana Fallaci
The name of Khomeini will always remain in the new chapter of Iranian history. -- Erich Honecker
I remain faithful to the ideals of Imam Khomeini and the Islamic Revolution of 1357. -- Mehdi Karroubi
Those who regarded the revolution, during Imam Khomeini's time, as a deviation, are now [wielding] the tools of terror and oppression -- Mohammad Khatami
Look at Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution and the slogans that they used: anti-imperialism; anti-colonialism; the struggle of the have-nots against the haves; the state monopoly over economy, which was very much patterned after the Soviet Union. All of these things did not come out of Islam. Islam is not that developed. -- Azar Nafisi
The freedom-lovers of the world mourn the sad demise of Imam Khomeini. -- Ruhollah Khomeini
Khomeini has offered us the opportunity to regain our frail religion ... faith in the power of words. -- Ruhollah Khomeini
The Islamic Revolution of Iran is honourable for it is the cry which has its origin in Ayatollah Khomeini's conscience. -- 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, but no country seems prepared to emulate Iran. Perhaps revolutions happen only under majestic leaders, and no one like Khomeini has since appeared. -- Ruhollah Khomeini
If you look at the discourse before the revolution, whether it is the left communist, whether it is the right secularist...the entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini. -- Akbar Ganji
When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change. -- Wadah Khanfar
The leaders of the Pahlavi regime, in an attempt to forestall the rising tide of the Islamic revolutionary movement, were hard at work to cast doubt on the question of the Imam Khomeini's position as a Marja'a (a top religious authority) and in this way, undermine public faith in his academic, political and religious competence. -- Yousef Saanei
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. -- Alexander Haig

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