The World - News from Oct. 17, 1985

The Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini called on members of Iran’s Parliament to smooth over their differences and rally behind the government of Prime Minister Hussein Moussavi “to avoid a failure for Islam.” Khomeini’s intervention followed a vote of confidence Sunday in which more than a third of the legislators refused to back the government. Khomeini condemned “Western style” parliamentary dissension. he also called on the nations’s military forces “to make war and not politics.”