When all was said and done, whoever had survived the previous brutal regime was killed by the new one.
The entire model of theocracy that he put together was purely of his own making and was based on his thoughts, ideas, illusions and fantasy. His brutal method of using savagery caused about seven million Iranians to leave the country. In other words, in less than 5 years all those who had brains or money were gone. If you cut off the top 10% of the population, what are you are going to be left with is 90% of the population that is religious, uneducated, and traditional followers.
Khomeini took his position so seriously that he imitated a couple of things that the Prophet Mohammed had done. Mohammed had sent three messengers to the countries of Persia, Rome and Egypt, inviting them to become Muslims. Khomeini sent a messenger to Gorbachov inviting him to become a Muslim.*20
The great poet
One last point about Khomeini is his total love and devotion to God. Khomeini was a great poet. After he died his poetry was published. His poetry of younger ages is too primitive and too harsh, but his poems of later years are just a delight. We know it's authentic because it's in his handwriting. When you read it you realize how magnificent it is. In the beginning I had trouble believing these beautiful poems were coming from his frozen brain. In one of his works, which was written in winter of 1987, he wrote a beautiful poem telling God how happy he was his life was over and he was finally able to join him. Six months later in the summer of 1988, he ordered the execution of about 8,000 political prisons, who were captured and imprisoned and could not have been any harm to anybody. The contradiction is mind-boggling.
Khomeini Died on the 24th of September, 1992. At that time he had had 12 years to implement his plans: Kill all enemies, intimidate the rest, and set up the most horrific government on the planet. I lost many friends and I know of many fine people that were ordered to death by him, simply because he was so anal and rigid that he did not want to deviate one centimeter from what he thought to be the truth.
Since his death, his disciples have proven to be much worse than him. He used to kill, torture for God. These guys do the same thing x10 over but for sport and at times for power and money. The religious ideals that Khomeini wanted to be accepted, loved and implemented by the people of the world have turned out to be one of the biggest challenges for the Iranian people and a giant menace for the world.
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*1 What is an Ayatollah; the term Ayatollah means "sign of God" and it is specific to the Shiite sect of Islam. In Shiite, there is a belief that after the Prophet Mohammad's death, his son-in-law and then his grandsons were the divine leaders of the society for 12 generations. Each one of these saints is referred to as Imam. The twelfth Imam was Mahdi, who is the Messiah and disappeared, and who will come back in future to put the rule of God on Earth. During the absence of messiah, the Ayatollahs are his representatives on earth. Each Shiite Muslim is required to follow an ayatollah of his time in all aspects of religion and life. A decree written by an Ayatollah has to be followed by his followers as if it is the orders of the Messiah itself. There are those students of theology who finish their schooling and get the final degree. Once an Ayatollah has a following, he is referred to as Grand Ayatollah. At this time there are nine Grand Ayatollahs in Iran.
Periodically, one of these Grand Ayatollahs gains such popularity that they become the only Grand Ayatollah of the time. Ayatollah Khomeini is one of them.
*2: Sadeghian Abbas: one on one interview with Ayatollah S Tehran 1985.
*3the memoirs of ayatollah Pasandideh, the memories: second edition1992 Tehran
*4 DSMIV-TR.
*5 Mr. S. Sedigheh Khomeini
The Report was from the Washington Post Newspaper taken by an American Reporter in Tehran.
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