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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."
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."
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.
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.