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Islamism,
16
,
33
,
53
,
76
,
84
,
141
,
176

Islamization

of curricula,
44
,
71
of social sciences,
451

ISNA (news agency),
295
,
299
,
303
,
308

Israel,
28
,
30
,
55
,
86
,
87
,
318
,
353
,
357
,
444

 

Jacobs, Jane,
213

Jafari, Mohammad Ali (Revolutionary Guard Corps commander),
408

Jahanbegloo, Ramin (philosopher),
120

Jalili, Saeed (nuclear negotiator),
462
–63

Jannati, Ahmad (ayatollah),
420

Javidifar, Amir (prisoner),
429

Jomhuriat
(newspaper),
260
,
288

judiciary

Khatami and,
465
penal code and sharia law and,
381
,
398
–99
power of Islamic,
35
repressing journals,
326
,
375
Soroush on independent,
328
–29
Supreme Leader controlling,
38

 

Kadivar, Mohsen (dissident cleric)

arrest of,
252
in Center for Strategic Research,
141
–42
evading Ansar-e Hezbollah,
123
–24
Shiite theories of governance and,
142
,
146
,
247
“velvet coup” plot and,
436
,
437

Kahrizak Detention Center,
426
–32

Kamaly, Hossein (scholar),
119

Kamrani, Mohammad (prisoner),
429
–31

Kant, Immanuel,
61
,
80

Karbaschi, Gholamhossein (Tehran mayor)

Khatami election and,
157
–58
Memarian and,
270
selling development rights,
220
–23
transforming Tehran,
219
,
221
–22, 342
trial of,
225
–26

Kargozaran (moderate right–reformist coalition),
147
,
149
,
157

Karimi-Rad, Jamal (judiciary official),
297
,
310
,
395
–96,
399

Karroubi, Mehdi (reformist politician)

attacks on,
449
challenging election results,
414
,
421
at demonstrations,
414
,
416
–17
on detention center rapes,
430
–31
in election of 2005,
330
–32
in election of 2009,
354
,
411
–12
founding
Etemad Melli
,
311
under house arrest, 464
Mirebrahimi working for,
311
Solmaz Sharif and,
275
,
287
as speaker of parliament,
204
,
252
on turmoil in 2004,
321

Kayhan
(newspaper)

elections and,
362
Fazlinejad treatise in,
435
–39,
445
as largest newspaper,
19
,
56
as state-controlled,
56
,
435
,
461
on Tehran,
231
as voice of shah,
56

Kayhan-e Farhangi
(cultural supplement)

Davari and,
79
Ganji and,
110
Rokhsefat and,
56
–57,
73
–74,
80
–81

Kazemi, Zahra (photojournalist),
234
–40,
256

Keane, John,
437
–38

Keshavarz (interrogator)

confession letters and,
294
–98
meeting Mirebrahimi after release,
304
–5
Mirebrahimi and,
277
–79,
281
–84

Khalkhali, Sadegh (judge),
248

Khamenei, Ali (Supreme Leader)

Ahmadinejad and,
420
,
461
Asadi and,
84
–85
characteristics of,
84
as critical of Soroush,
122
denouncing social sciences,
450
on Eighteenth of Tir attack on students,
197
election of 1982 and,
83
on election of 2009,
420
–21
favoring hard-liners,
132
foreign policy and,
345
influences on,
84
Islamic Right and,
83
literary interests of,
12
,
52
,
84
Mousavi and,
422
as president,
83
,
85
on prison massacre,
98
–99
in prison under shah,
84
–85
refuting Soroush,
117
–18
on Revolutionary Council,
34
Shariati and,
16
Tajzadeh letter to,
452
–54
on un-Islamic acts,
433
–34

Khaniki, Hadi (professor),
369
–70,
385

Khatami, Mohammad (president)

bloggers and,
302
as candidate in 2009,
352
chain murders and,
178
–80,
193
characteristics of,
150
–51,
155
,
157
criticisms of,
324
,
327
–28
as culture minister,
80
,
110
as editor of
Kayhan
,
56
,
74
in election of 1997,
148
–49,
156
–58,
369
–70
hard-liners and,
192
–93
heading national library,
132
Kazemi murder and,
238
–42
leaving office,
335
NGOs licensed under,
269
–70,
325
prohibition on use of name and image,
465
reformists and,
251
–52,
316
–17,
320
–21
Rokhsefat and,
80
–81
students and,
202
–5,
314
–16,
372
“velvet coup” plot and,
436
,
439
views on West,
151
–53

Khatami, Mohammad Reza (reformist member of parliament and brother of president),
158

Khater, Suleiman (Egyptian soldier who killed tourists in Sinai),
86

Khoeiniha, Mohammad Mousavi (reformist cleric)

as director of Center for Strategic Research,
140
–41,
146
as editor of
Salam
,
147

Khomeini, Ahmad (son of Ruhollah),
102

Khomeini, Ruhollah (Supreme Leader, 1979–1989)

Bani-Sadr and,
40
,
42
characteristics of,
26
–27
death of,
88
–89,
102
defending
komiteh
s,
37
demonstrations supporting,
26
on destiny,
405
disinheriting Ayatollah Montazeri,
101

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