... of Action World Plan of Action Ayatollah Khomeini Tabriz President jimmy carter’s decision to spend New Year’s Eve 1977 in Tehran was unexpected. That November, the shah and the queen’s visit to the United States had been marred by the leftist Confederation of Iranian Students’ demonstrations...

... rights to divorce; and restricting the husband’s right to multiple wives. The Law’s annulment as Ayatollah Khomeini’s first decree after his return demonstrated the centrality of the status of women to the fundamentalists’ fury. In 1975 the WOI organized a successful international women’s film festival...

... to slit his own throat. Tahereh was later hanged for heresy—that is, for daring to think, to voice her beliefs, and to lead. The author describes Ayatollah Khomeini’s response to the 1963 White Revolution reforms, the most dangerous and repugnant of which to Khomeini’s concept of social organization...