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He criticized his father for understanding too late the Iranian people's yearning for democracy, saying that this was the cause of his overthrow 20 years ago and now of the student revolt against the ayatollahs.
5. A bunch of ayatollahs
As a patron of the Soil Association, which campaigns for organic food, the prince is also said to be upset by an article written by the government's chief scientific adviser saying the Soil Association was run by "ayatollahs" as a "theological movement."
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.
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."