Certainly, many of these people are impassioned, unquestioning supporters of the Iraqi leader too.

Buck remained General Secretary until 1962, and was an unquestioning supporter of the Soviet line throughout his tenure.

And these critics say the council's executive board needs to be reorganized so that it is no longer a group of unquestioning supporters of the executive director reluctant to challenge him for fear of losing their perks.

In letters to Ayatollah Khomeini and in messages to the public on television and on the radio, he repeatedly denounced corruption and tyranny in the regime, and he called for an end to its division of Iranian society into unquestioning supporters of the regime and enemies of Islam.