Iran’s Zam And Other Sons Of The Islamic Republic Who Rebelled Against The Clerical Regime Published on December 26, 2020 Human right/Politics 679 views Ruhollah Zam's father, a cleric who served as the head of Iran's state propaganda agency in the 1980s, named him after the leader of the 1979 revolution and the founder of the Islamic republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. More