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aus einer Rede gehalten in Qom 1980, Quelle: welt.de http://www.welt.de/print-welt/article706570/Der_zweite_Holocaust.html; Anmerkung: mit "dieses Land" ist der Iran gemeint

Letter to Russian Premier Gorbachev, January 1989. http://politicalquotes.org/node/68478
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Addressing an audience of Iranian industry workers and inventors (October 1983); quoted in "Imam's Sahife" vol. 18 p. 189,190.
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Imam's Sahife. vol. 16, p. 349,350. (21 June 1982)
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Just How Far Did They Go, Those Words Against Israel?, The New York Times, June 11, 2006, 2007-08-13 http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/11/weekinreview/11bronner.html?ex=1307678400&en=efa2bd266224e880&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss,
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Response to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's announcement of elections (August 1978); quoted in "The Shah's Divided Land" (18 September 1978) Time
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"Imam's Sahife" vol. 4 p. 244 (1 November 1978).
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Quelle: Interview with Human Rights Watch, Paris (10 November 1978)

Imam's Sahife. vol. 18, p. 241. (11 December 1983)
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Tahrir al-Vasileh, 1970. http://politicalquotes.org/node/54102
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Speech at Behesht Zahra cemetery (1 February 1979), condemning the government of Shapour Bakhtiar

As quoted in Nest of Spies : America's Journey to Disaster in Iran (1989) by Amir Taheri, p. 269. Disputed by historian Shaul Bakhash.
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Quoted by dissident cleric Hossein-Ali Montazeri, once in line to be Iran's supreme leader. ShiaNews.com (17 December 2000) http://www.shianews.com/hi/asia/news_id/0000573.php. This statement is said to have been made after the Mojahedin-e Khalgh militant organization launched an offensive against Iranian troops from bases in Iraq.
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Variante: Variant: All those against the revolution, that insist on their position, must disappear and quickly be executed.

Imam's Sahife, vol. 5, p. 468. (15 January 1979)
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Interview for Austrian television, Paris, (6 November 1978), as quoted in "Democracy? I meant theocracy — The most truthful individual in recent history" by Dr. Jalal Matini,and Farhad Mafie, in The Iranian (5 August 2003) http://www.iranian.com/Opinion/2003/August/Khomeini/
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Hichi. Hich ehsasi nadaram
Exchange between American reporter Peter Jennings and Khomeini (1 February 1979), during Khomeini's return flight to Iran; quoted in Elaine Sciolino (2001) Persian Mirrors. Khomeini's translator did not translate his response, but said only that he had no comment.

Interview for The Guardian in Paris (6 November 1978)
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Le Monde interview in Paris (9 January 1979)
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Speech on the day of Mohammed's birth (1984)
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Speech in Qum, as quoted in Portrait of an Ascetic Despot, Time, January 7, 1980, 2007-02-02 http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,923857,00.html,
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Imam's Sahife, vol. 5, p. 133. (17 December 1978)
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Tahrīr al-Wasīla vol. 1
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Denouncing the situation that sex segregation was not being imposed by the government. Speech number sixteen, Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, World Service, October 26, 1964 http://www.irib.ir/worldservice/imam/speech/,
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Associated Press interview in Paris (7 November 1978); repeated on several occasions before Khomeini returned to Iran
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Islamic Revolution, Bernard Lewis, The New York Review of Books, April 28, 1988, 2011-12-26 http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1988/jan/21/islamic-revolution/?pagination=false,
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Announcement of ceasefire with Iraq (20 July 1988), quoted in The Iran-Iraq War (2002) by Efraim Karsh
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Fatwa against Salman Rushdie (14 February 1989)
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Quelle: Remarks to students and educators in Qom (13 March 1979)