When the Imam arrived at Paris airport it was not that he came by previous appointment and became known that definitely there would be no problem encountered on his arrival in Paris. Just imagine a leader as old as him and who at this critical juncture of the struggle had departed for Kuwait but was not accepted. There was talk of his going to Syria, but it had not happened. Now he had come to France. One of the Iranian photographers was saying that because of his unique technique of photography and journalism, he had gone and stood at a sensitive point of the airport in Paris-at a location where the passengers would pass from in front of a table. He wanted to see the face and gaze of the Imam and thus he went and clicked a photograph which he had kept with him from a very interesting angle. As he was looking into the camera, he focused the camera exactly on the eyes of the Imam so that the camera photographed the full gaze of the Imam. In that gaze, one could see nothing else except assurance, composure and power.[1]
[1]Assurance, composure and power in the gaze of the Imam: Martyr Beheshti