Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East

by Kim Ghattas

Yazdi, Ghotbzadeh, Mohsen … the LMI were all left behind. Banisadr, the man who had first identified Khomeini as the conduit to the masses, would later remark, “It seemed that the duty of the intellectuals was to bring Khomeini to Tehran and hand him over to the mollahs.”