Prashant’s Reviews > Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East > Status Update

“… adding context and rounding the edges for sensitive Western reporters. In doing so they constantly molded the ayatollah’s words and his image… He was quoted in the Guardian as saying, “I don’t want to have the power or the government in my hand. I am not interested in personal power.””