From the article: What's a "Supreme Leader"?
Striking contradictions undermine the roots of Ayatollah Khomeini's Iranian Revolution, not least of which the joining of temporal (or political) and spiritual leadership under one "Supreme Leader"--an invention of Khomeini's that defies traditional Shiite teachings. The joining has created inevitable tensions within the regime. The more it imposes the orthodoxy of Khomeini's "ideals," the more dissatisfied Iranians become. The more the regime loosens its orthodoxy, the less the revolutionary regime makes sense. Can the revolution survive without force? Your turn to predict
can survive
- the iranian revolution can survive because this revolution is not like a russian or french or china revolution. there is a strong basis of religios concepts. this revolution is the revolution of those people who know thier real identity , think of unity, knows the rival thinking. in reality the peak leaders of iran are not pupits of west like arabian leaders and as other counteries and did not follow the dictation of west. so, according to me iranian revolution can survive.
- —Guest yousuf ali
