What do non-Muslims say about Imam Khomeini?

What comes following is a writing piece extracted from Robin Woodsworth Carlsen s book of ‘The Imam and his Islamic Revolution’ Although there has been talk about seeing the leader of the Islamic Republic, the much hated, much revered Ayatollah Khomeini, I had learned that it was better – with something a portentously important as such a visit – to make the effort and then accept what happened.