Historical Memory
The project’s signature section: “what they said / what they said later” — shifting positions and contradictions, with records, dates, and archives.
What they said — what they said later
Public position shifts, only through dated, sourced quotes. Bidar passes no verdict; it places the frames side by side.
Earlier (war years): Khomeini repeatedly insisted the war continue until victory and Saddam's fall, rejecting a ceasefire.
Later (20 July 1988): he announced acceptance of UN Resolution 598 and a ceasefire, saying the decision was 'more deadly than drinking from a poisoned chalice.' A documented, dated reversal of a stated public position; the reader judges.
No verdict — the text is verbatim from the figure's sourced dossier.
What they said / what they said later — the figures
then ⇄ nowThe shifting public positions of Khomeini, Khamenei, Montazeri, Mousavi, Ahmadinejad, Trump and Graham — dated, sourced quotations only, without judgment.
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