Faith-Based Solutions Quotes
The Supreme Court had ruled school prayer illegal. Many religious people were distressed and turned to the President:
The irony of his lecturing the Russians was that the revolutionary regime he founded in Iran, which had faith in God, was terribly unpopular with the Iranian people precisely because of the lack of private ownership and freedom and a moribund economy. The ruling religious elite in the Iranian theocracy had to ban popular leaders from standing for election in order to maintain control of a country where most people preferred the very things that Khomeini and the other Ayatollahs advised were unimportant.