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This document appears to be a page from a political article or book analyzing the Iranian regime, specifically focusing on the transition from Ayatollah Khomeini to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. It critiques their economic policies and their strict religious views regarding women, the hijab, and family structure. While the content is geopolitical analysis, the document bears a 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT' stamp, indicating it was included as evidence in a Congressional investigation, likely as an attachment to correspondence found in the relevant document cache.
People (2)
| Name | Role | Context |
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| Khomeini | Former Supreme Leader of Iran |
Described as dismissing economics and focusing on religious penalties; died in 1989.
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| Ayatollah Ali Khamenei | Current Supreme Leader of Iran |
Succeeded Khomeini; described as loyal to Khomeini's vision, particularly regarding women and modesty (hijab).
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Organizations (3)
| Name | Type | Context |
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| Islamic Republic |
The political regime of Iran.
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| America's Christian right |
Compared to Islamists in Egypt and Iran regarding 'politics of pious populism'.
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| House Oversight Committee |
Implied by the footer stamp 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT'.
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Timeline (2 events)
1989
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AFTER HIS DEATH IN 1989, Khomeini was succeeded by the current supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Key Quotes (5)
"The drafters of [the Islamic Penal Code] had effectively taken us back 1,400 years."Source
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"Khomeini famously dismissed economics as 'for donkeys,' and he responded to complaints of inflation by saying, 'The revolution wasn't about the price of watermelons.'"Source
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"In 1979, resource-rich Iran's GDP was almost double that of resource-poor Turkey. Today, it is roughly half."Source
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"Khamenei sees men, not women, as untrustworthy and incapable of resisting temptation"Source
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"In Islam, women have been prohibited from showing off their beauty in order to attract men or cause fitna [upheaval or sedition]."Source
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be said to be a revolution of men against women.... The drafters of [the Islamic Penal Code] had effectively taken us back 1,400 years."
Like Islamists in today's Egypt -- and some among America's Christian right -- Iran's revolutionaries found fertile ground on which to play the politics of pious populism, rather than concretely address the enormous challenges of building a diversified economy. The country's massive oil wealth made it appear all too easy. Khomeini famously dismissed economics as "for donkeys," and he responded to complaints of inflation by saying, "The revolution wasn't about the price of watermelons." Three decades later, the results are self-evident: In 1979, resource-rich Iran's GDP was almost double that of resource-poor Turkey. Today, it is roughly half.
The brutal reality is that Iranians had entrusted their national destiny to a man, Khomeini, who had spent far more time thinking about the religious penalties for fornicating with animals than how to run a modern economy.
AFTER HIS DEATH IN 1989, Khomeini was succeeded by the current supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has remained loyal to Khomeini's vision for Iran, including his prudishness regarding matters of the flesh. For Khamenei -- who has said that keeping women in hijab would "prevent our society from being plunged into corruption and turmoil" -- outward displays of feminine beauty are viewed not only with religious disfavor, but as an existential threat to the regime itself.
Khamenei contends that the health of the family unit is integral to the Islamic Republic's well-being and is undermined by female beauty. Although to some this worldview is fundamentally misogynistic, Khamenei sees men, not women, as untrustworthy and incapable of resisting temptation:
In Islam, women have been prohibited from showing off their beauty in order to attract men or cause fitna [upheaval or sedition]. Showing off one's physical attraction to men is a kind of fitna ... [for] if this love for beauty and members of the opposite sex is found somewhere other than the framework of the family, the stability of the family will be undermined.
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