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The student riots in Tehran were taken most seriously by the Italian newspapers, some of which led their front pages with dramatic headlines--"A Day of Civil War" ( La Stampa of Turin), "The Fist of the Ayatollahs" ( La Repubblica of Rome)--and devoted several pages to their coverage of the unrest.
One defense source said, "We can only hope that if the liberal forces gain the upper hand in Iran, they will manage to do so before the ayatollahs get their hands on strategic weapons that could harm Israel."
5. A bunch of ayatollahs
Richard Gorman of a coalition of priests and local residents battling an incursion of hot-bed motels in their Bronx neighborhood, "We have a very active clergy, but we're not a bunch of ayatollahs."
The 1960s American ban on Cuban cigars so devastated Fidel Castro that American policy-makers didn't hesitate, a decade later, to punish the flag-burning ayatollahs with a similar ban on Iranian caviar.