Ayatollah Khomeini’s residence in Paris

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Even many secularists who firmly disapproved of his policies were said to feel the power of his “messianic” appeal.[280] Comparing him to a father figure who retains the enduring loyalty even of children he disapproves of, journalist Afshin Molavi writes that defenses of Khomeini are “heard in the most unlikely settings”:

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