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A second group within the opposition consists of Khomeinist former officials who promote the so-called "Turkish model," which would allow Iran to normalize ties with the West while building an Islamic system with the military as ultimate arbiter.

Iran's Green Movement Lives Amir Taheri 2011

As I wrote at the time, one of the most interesting and, in my view, significant aspects of what has been occurring in Iran is the way that a long-suppressed Islamist critique of the Iranian regime (and of the Khomeinist theory of “rule of the cleric” that underpins it) seems at last to have found a vehicle in the protest movement now being led by Mousavi and Rafsanjani.

Wonk Room » The Growing Iranian Clerical Critique 2009

The US military killed a senior Taliban commander with links to Iran's Qods Forces during an airstrike in western Afghanistan … The US military said Mustafa had connections to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps - Qods Force, the external special operations division that is tasked with supporting the Khomeinist Islamist revolution.

Global Voices in English » Afganistan: Is Iran Supporting the Taliban? 2009

Having abandoned religious studies at an early level, Hakim made a professional career in the 1980s as a political-military operator in what was then called the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), a Khomeinist outfit created by Iran in 1982 in order to maximise its control of the Iraqi opposition during the Iran – Iraq War.

Global Voices in English » Iraq: Death Of Shi’ite Leader Abdul Aziz Al Hakim 2009

While the country is predominantly Muslim, of course, its people simply would not welcome a system, as in Khomeinist Iran, that is guided by religion.

Pepe Escobar: So Many Ways to Strut Your Democratic Stuff in a New World Pepe Escobar 2011

Nevertheless, in its present form the opposition is unlikely to topple the Khomeinist regime.

Iran's Green Movement Lives Amir Taheri 2011

While the country is predominantly Muslim, of course, its people simply would not welcome a system, as in Khomeinist Iran, that is guided by religion.

Pepe Escobar: So Many Ways to Strut Your Democratic Stuff in a New World Pepe Escobar 2011

Amazingly, the NAMP's website links to, get this, the Islamic Human Rights Commision, a Khomeinist front organisation.

Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

A nuclear Khomeinist Iran, an al Qaeda–controlled Saudi Arabia, a Hezbollah-dominated Lebanon, a Hamas-led Palestinian state, an Iraq divided between Salafists and the Mahdi army, an Egypt under the Muslim Brotherhood, and a North African Horn and Sahel increasingly penetrated by the jihadists will menace international relations like no other force before.

The Coming Revolution Walid Phares 2010

According to many Iranian-American activists, the Voice of America Farsi language service, financed by Congress, was infiltrated by the Khomeinist regime from day one.

The Coming Revolution Walid Phares 2010