A pilgrimage to Iran |
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The first stop was one that the Iraqis might not have put on the list themselves the shrine to Khomeini, just outside Tehran. Iraqis fought a bloody war with Khomeinis Iran in the 1980s. But the tour operators wanted to give them a new picture of the revolutionary leader, and it seemed to work on Jalil Abbas. ``He was a righteous man, he said as he got off the bus. ``Look what he has and look where Saddam has ended up.
(Anne Barnard for The Boston Globe)
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