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Hoveyda was alleged to have been the author of an article which attacked the opposition figure the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as being a British agent and a liar, which was anyonymously published in Kayhan newspaper in January 1978 on the Shah’s orders. Whether or not the allegations were true, the article generated a major backlash among Khomeini’s supporters, which eventually spiralled into the Iranian Revolution.
