Freedom, Culture and Education in Khomeini’s State: What Price Islam?

Abstract

Khomeini intended to build a thoroughly Islamic state, yet — despite the rhetoric — by the time he died, in terms of real politics Islam had become more of a posture than a reality. When it came to debts, matters of welfare, health, housing, economic planning then it was not Islam but the economist and IMF’s monetarist policies that dictated the terms.¹