An Ayatullah explains why he now opposes Khomeini
For the past ten years, the Ayatullah Jalal Ganje'i, 40, has been a professor of Islamic theology in Iran and Iraq. In the early 1960s he was a student of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, the spiritual leader of the Iranian revolution. In those days, both men were opposed to the repressive rule of the Shah of Iran, and Ganje'i spent several years in jail for his dissident activities. After the Shah's fall, Ganje'i sided with what he calls the "progressive" Islam of the Mujahedin-e Khalq, a guerrilla organization that is now trying to...
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