The End of Iran’s Ayatollah’s

Martin Amis pronounces the end of the Iranian regime. Abbas Barzegar takes him down a notch or two:
With the same impulse for reduction and sheer negligence he manages to completely mistake Khomeini’s participation in a centuries-old Sufi poetic tradition that analogises spiritual ecstasy with material intoxication for some kind of repressed Persian angst. Even my [...]