One of the complaints of the revolution’s leader and Khalkhali’s superior, the Ayatollah Khomeini against the regime they had overthrown was that the Shah’s far more limited number of executions of drug traffickers had been “inhuman.”In December 1980 his influence waned when he was forced to resign from the revolutionary courts because of his failure to account for $14 million seized through drug raids, confiscations, and fines, although some believe this as much the doing of President Bani-Sadr and the powerful head of the Islamic Republic Party Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti “working behind the scenes” to remove a source of bad publicity for the revolution, as a matter of outright corruption.