Why Iran's iron ayatollah distrusts the US and what that means for nuclear talks and the possibility of war with the West.
By Scott Peterson
The Christian Science Monitor
December 4, 2012
Deep inside an old Tehran
political prison, three turns off a dark corridor and through a small
gap, lies a bleak cell for solitary confinement. Too narrow for a
prisoner to extend his arms, it was once the cell of the man who today
holds the official title in Iran, "God's deputy on earth."
Scratched into the blackened paint is a hopeless verse about "the prison ashamed of the face of the liberated."
It was here in the 1970s that opponents of the American-backed Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi
were held and tortured by the SAVAK secret police, as popular anger
outside swelled inevitably toward the 1979 Islamic revolution. That
event would oust the shah and usher in a self-proclaimed "government of
God."
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