| CNN.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. | Opinion: Will Iran's supreme leader drink the 'poison' of peace? | | Back in 1989, Ayatollah Khomeini famously said he was "drinking poison" when he accepted a ceasefire to end the eight-year-old war with Iraq. The war had helped define Khomeini's regime, the Islamic Republic, which he had founded a year before Saddam Hussein invaded Iran. Khomeini galvanized the nation, both his supporters and growing opponents, to fight against the enemy. |
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