Iran, 1979-1997: Islamic Republic, War, and Thermidor
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Ayatollah Khomeini - Is He a Homo?
Before he died Khomeini also pronounces on some of Rushdie's satanic verses and issues this fatwa. This was seen as again sort of consolidating the regime ensuring that the sort of the much sort of anticipates to some degree of normalization with the West. He said it wasn't an Ayatollah with a significant following, and usually it's seen or argued that Rassan Jani who was the key sort of engineer or the person who was essential to engineering this process.
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