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Ruhollah Khomeini

Ruhollah Khomeini appears in Iran, protests, and sanctions as the revolutionary leader who came to power in 1979 and helped define the Islamic Republic against U.S. and Western influence. The episode uses his founding moment to explain why Iran’s economic policy cannot be read only as technocratic development policy: foreign investment, concessions, and openness were politically charged by memory of foreign exploitation.

In the wiki, Khomeini grounds the older historical layer behind Iran Sanctions. The hostage crisis, first U.S. asset freeze, and domestic constitutional language against foreign concession helped harden Revolutionary Economic Self-Reliance, making later sanctions operate against a state already partly organized around anti-Western identity.

77.她是自由的野狗，她是法拉奇 adds Khomeini through Oriana Fallaci’s interview in Qom. The episode says Khomeini’s side expected Fallaci might be favorable after her criticism of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, but the interview became a case of Journalistic Independence Against Faction / 拒绝站队的新闻独立 when she challenged rules around women’s clothing and segregation. The forced chador and temporary-marriage episode also connect him to Protection As Control in this source.

EP251 伊朗困局：四十年战略选择的代价与现实 adds a regime-design comparison. 刘仪 presents Khomeini as a political philosopher and major revolutionary strategist whose horizon was the Muslim world’s direction, not short-run Iranian development. The episode also credits him with recognizing that clerics alone could not run technical administration, producing a dual structure of religious authority and administrative-bureaucratic governance that Ali Khamenei later inherited.

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