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Nevertheless, and despite his reputation as a moderate liberal, Khatami, the son of an ayatollah, remains a product of Iran's Shiite Muslim clerical establishment.
The result was a surprise, since Nategh-Nuri enjoys the tacit support of Iran's spiritual leader, Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei, and was viewed as the clerical establishment's candidate for president.
In fact, so rapidly does our vocabulary continue to expand by the addition of such technical neologisms as AIDS or star wars and such borrowings as zaftig and ayatollah that a reader of our day could well be more taxed to know the meanings of all the words in yesterday's newspaper than to understand all of the Diary .
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also spoke up for President Mohammed Khatami, usually his sparring partner, who has been trying to bring the government, police, and judiciary in line with law.
One might be led to think that it is always open (silly) season on the language in the US; but we cannot ignore the seriousness of religious taboos on some aspects of language and writing, as the fatwah issued by the Ayatollah Khomeini on Salman Rushdie because of a book.