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The people gave him the mandate to do what he thought was best, and that power caused an emotional and spiritual transformation in him. The man who had never lied in his life, changed his word and implemented something totally different from what he had promised.
The promises of constitutional assembly changed into an assembly of experts. That was the first sign that the constitution was going to be written by his people rather than by the People's people. Like other dictators, he developed an exaggerated sense of self-importance, which in this case was divine too. He really believed that he is on a mission from God to set things straight for the only true religion of the world. For the first time in 1,400 years he had the chance to establish that government which is promised in Shiite books. After all, there were millions of people who were supporting him. A person that rigid had no other choice within his mind; he had to create what he had preached was "an Islamic government", based on his interpretations of Islam. Watching multimillion member crowds of people gave him the assurance that he was accomplishing a divine mission. For the first time in the history of the religion, he referred to himself as an Imam (leader) rather than Nayeb al Imam (the representative of the mess ayah). He retracted some of the things he had promised in Paris, which made him look like a liar.
He simply had never thought that he could get to the point that he would be able to accomplish what the saints were unable to do. In all honesty, he did have more power than all the Shiite saints, and there were people who would be happy to die implementing his ideas. Historically, all dictators begin grand scale changes, killings and genocides when they see that there are people who are ready to do it for them.
Grusome Killing by hanging Judge
Analyzing Khomeini's psychopathology, we clearly see that he was solely responsible for all of the atrocities of the last 30 years. There were other Ayatollahs in Iran, some less dogmatic and some more. But, traditionally, the Ayatollahs didn't like getting involved in politics too much. They honestly saw themselves above politics. They wanted to take care of their faith. They used their power only when necessary. The kings historically were religious themselves. So they wouldn't do things deliberately to irritate the religious leaders.
If the leader of the revolution had been a traditional Ayatollah like Shariatmadari or Taleghani. They would have not insisted on creating an Islamic republic. They would have insisted on creating simply a republic. Khomeini didn't have that choice because his personality makeup would not permit any deviation from what he had studied for decades.
Hyper-religiosity and total adherence to his own interpretation of Islam
As we all know, all controlling people have a tendency to think that there is one right way of doing things and that's their way. Therefore, Khomeini threw out his old advisers who had saved his life. People like Dr. Yazdi and Ghotbzadeh - who had been able to persuade the US and European countries that Khomeini was the best possible alternative to all those communist groups lurking from Russia - were a liability now. He threw those guys out and replaced them with his own students, who were as dogmatic as he was. The promises of Paris were gone too. He was breaking his word for a higher cause.
real winners, dupped by Arafat
Khomeini's Brutality:
Khomeini's change of word did not settle well with us. All those groups who had been fighting the king for decades with any intellect rejected a theocracy. This difference of the opinion was too big to be taken care of with a cup of tea. There was an uprising and defiance. Khomeini did not have any problem ordering his followers into combat. According to his ideology, he was the Truth and whoever fought against him was an infidel. He gave a low IQ, half crazy Ayatollah, named Khalkhali, the authority to be the Hanging Judge and hang whoever needed to be hanged. And all that killing was okay as long as it was for the cause of Islam.*16
EVIN MURDERERS ,
Lajevardi the buture of notorious Evin prison,Clergy tortureres
He was looking at everything from his own rigid prism. For example, when a few of the revolutionary guards had gone to see him, and he heard that some of them had done things which were not kosher, he told them they should be more careful of their behavior because if they behaved in a way that was not right, then after they died and were in heaven, some people would tell God these guards had done things which were not quite right. Then the Messiah was going to be embarrassed in front of angels and would be ashamed that his friends hadn't behaved the right way*22. He talked about this possible encounter as if he was convinced of the events to come. His absolute certainty was because of his total acceptance of all details of the Shiite sect of Islam, while for us, and the rest of the population, these were just a bunch of religious stories, which were probably untrue. We just wanted him to help us to kick the Shah out. We did not want him to become the next Shah with a turban.
For him, these thoughts were so real that if a group of students would get together and start a nationalist group or a socialist group, they were considered the enemies of God and could be killed with no hesitation. He referred to these enemies as gangrene, which had to be cut off ASAP before spreading.*18
Once he took the path of backing off on his promises, including closing some of the newspapers, people suddenly realized that they weren't getting what they had bargained for. We were deprived of the democracy we had fought for, and received something which was not practiced anywhere. The contradiction caused street battles and everyone lost because he had total control of government and money and guns. He had hundreds of thousands of devout followers who took his word as the word of God and they were willing to die for him. In the fight that pitted a few hundred thousand secular revolutionaries against several million religious people, the secular groups were destroyed in less than a year. He also used the hostage crisis to unify his own people and distract the world from the internal events of Iran. While everyone was preoccupied with the American hostages, he killed all of his real enemies, who were the Iranian seculars. was killed by the new one.
