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	Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
		Khomeini became a highly respected religious teacher, based in Qom, but his position was not a leading one, when he in 1963 was arrested for opposing land reform and women's emancipation.
		Khomeini is probably the one force most responsible for the length of the Gulf War against Iraq, which could have ended years before 1988.
		Khomeini's control over Iranian politics must have been strong in his 10 years period, but there were many interests opposing his politics, and the effect of his rule was often disturbed by this.
	i-cias.com /e.o/khomeini.htm (378 words)

	History of Iran: Ayatollah Khomeini
		Khomeini's grandfather, Seyed Ahmad, left Lucknow (according to a statement of Khomeini's elder brother, Seyed Morteza Pasandideh, his point of departure was Kashmir, not Lucknow) some time in the middle of the nineteenth century on pilgrimage to the tomb of Hazrat 'Ali in Najaf.
		Ayatollah Khomeini reacted with a message in which he declared the events in Qom and similar disturbances elsewhere to be a sign of hope that "freedom and liberation from the bonds of imperialism" were at hand.
		Shah decided to seek the deportation of Ayatollah Khomeini from Iraq, the agreement of the Iraqi government was obtained at a meeting between the Iraqi and Iranian foreign ministers in New York, and on September 24, 1978, the Khomeini's house in Najaf was surrounded by troops.
	www.iranchamber.com /history/rkhomeini/ayatollah_khomeini.php (2085 words)

	Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini - dKosopedia
		Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (May 17, 1900 - June 3, 1989) was an Iranian Shia Islamist cleric and the political and spiritual leader of the 1979 revolution that overthrew Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the then Shah of Iran.
		Khomeini became the center of a large personality cult, and opposition to the religious rule or Islam in general was often met with harsh punishments.
		Khomeini is considered by many as one of the most influential men (for good or bad) of the 20th century, and was named Time Magazine's Man of the Year in 1980.
	www.dkosopedia.com /wiki/Ayatollah_Ruhollah_Khomeini (700 words)

	Ruhollah Khomeini
		Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (May 17, 1900 - June 30, 1989) was an Iranian Shiite fundamentalist cleric[?] and spiritual leader of the 1979 revolution that overthrew Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the then Shah of Iran.
		Khomeini stated on February 23, 1980 that Iran's parliament would decide the fate of the American embassy hostages.
		Khomeini is considered by some as one of the most influential men (for good or bad) of the 20th century, and was name Time Magazine's Man of the Year in 1980.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/kh/Khomeni.html (1213 words)

	Ayatollah Khomeini - MSN Encarta
		Khomeini was the son of Sayyid Mostafa, a religious scholar who died six months after Khomeini was born.
		In the early 1920s his teacher moved to Qom (Qum) and Khomeini followed, rising from the rank of pupil to ayatollah, a term for a leading Shia scholar that literally means “gift of God.” He embraced mysticism, which teaches the relinquishing of earthly pleasures in favor of a life spent contemplating God’s mysteries.
		Khomeini settled in An Najaf, a Shia holy city in northern Iraq.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761562182/Ayatollah_Khomeini.html (664 words)

	Ayatollah Khomeini - Demopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Ayatollah Seyyed Ruhollah Khomeini (آیت‌الله روح‌الله خمینی in Persian) (May 17, 1900 – June 3, 1989) was an Iranian Shia cleric and the political and spiritual leader of the 1979 revolution that overthrew Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the then Shah of Iran.
		Khomeini wrote a book Guardianship of the Islamic Jurists: all laws in an Islamic society should be based on the laws of Islam, all laws and activities should be monitored by authorities on Islamic law (guardians), there should be no king.
		In early 1989, Khomeini, in a fatwa, ruled the killing of Salman Rushdie a religious duty for Muslims, because of alleged blasphemy against Muhammad.
	demopedia.democraticunderground.com /index.php/Ayatollah_Khomeini (752 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Ruhollah Khomeini
		Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini (Persian: روح الله موسوی خمینی Arabic: روح الله الموسوي الخميني) (May 17 1900 – June 3 1989) was a Shi`i Muslim cleric and marja, and the political leader of the 1979 Islamic Revolution of Iran which saw the overthrow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran.
		Ruhollah Mousavi was born to Ayatollah Seyyed Mostafa Musavi and Hajieh Agha Khanum, also called Hajar, in the town of Khomein, about 300 kilometers (180 miles) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, possibly on May 17, 1900 or September 24, 1902.
		Ayatollah Khomeini summoned a meeting of his colleagues (other Ayatollahs) in Qom and persuaded the other senior marjas of Qom to decree a boycott of the referendum on the White Revolution.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Ruhollah_Khomeini (5264 words)

	Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Khomeini's rule was marked by the Iran hostage crisis and the Iran-Iraq War.
		Ayatollah Ruhollah KHOMEINI's portrait is exhibited by the crowd attending the opening of the university.
		Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the supreme leader of Iran, is shown in this undated file photo.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-khomeini.html (346 words)

	AsiaSource: Asia Biography - a resource of the Asia Society
		Ayatollah al-Uzma Sayyid Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini was a Shi’ite scholar and mystic.
		Although Khomeini’s first two decades in Qom were largely devoid of political activity, primarily because of the quietist policies of Ha’eri, he participated in the 1923 protest movement led by Agha Nurollah Isfahani, delivered well-attended lectures on ethics that had political implications, and composed poetry that was partly political in content.
		The beginning of Khomeini’s political role and his emergence as a national leader who was well know beyond the confines of Qom came when he led a successful campaign in the fall of 1962 for the repeal of laws governing elections to local and provincial councils.
	www.asiasource.org /society/khomeini.cfm (1091 words)

	Ayatollah Khomeini: Iran's Islamic Revolutionary
		Khomeini’s strict Shia Islamic law made women inferior beings, and opposition to this law was greeted with harsh punishments ranging from imprisonment to torture to execution.
		However, as Khomeini did not appear on the historic radar until the middle of the 20th century, the date of his birth is merely a trivial tidbit.
		Ruhollah Khomeini was granted the title of Ayatollah, the highest rank in the Shiite hierarchy of scholars, who are even qualified to give independent judgment in religious matters.
	www.hyperhistory.net /apwh/bios/b1khomeini.htm (1389 words)

	Cause iof the Iranian Revolution
		The Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini led the revolution of the Iranian people against the shah because they were dissatisfied with his government’s rule.
		The Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and his efforts to keep Iran an Islamic nation free of the Shah’s touch caused the fall of the Shah’s regime in Iran.
		Khomeini did this with words telling of the Shah’s governmental corruption, of his constitutional violations, and most importantly of his unholy westoxication, his imitation of things western.
	www.ccds.charlotte.nc.us /History/MidEast/02/curme/curme.htm (1503 words)

	Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini, Ayatollah Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Ayatollah Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini (1902-1989) was the founder and supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
		The hallmark of this phase was the emergence of Khomeini as the founder and the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
		Khomeini deemed Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses to be blasphemous because of its unflattering portrait of Islam.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/ruhollah-musavi-khomeini-ayatollah (1416 words)

	A Khomeini Breaks With His Lineage to Back U.S.
		Khomeini indicated that he could be the vanguard of a considerable number of senior Shiite clerics who are opposed to the way the clergy ruling Iran have used religion as a form of oppression and who will move to Iraq's shrine cities once the violence ebbs.
		Khomeini said he broke with his grandfather in the early days of the revolution over the killing of people with even minor links to the shah's regime, which he did not believe religious law sanctioned.
		Khomeini said that some Muslims in Iraq were quick to label the Americans as infidels, and that would probably be the case no matter how much the United States acted for the good of Iraq.
	www.freeserbia.net /Articles/2003/Khomeini.html (1001 words)

	SalamIran, IranInfo, Imam Khomeini Biography
		Imam Khomeini was born in the town of Khomein, about 350 kms south of Tehran in the central province, on the 20th of Jamadi-Al-Thani, the year 1320 L.H.,(September 24, 1902).
		She was the daughter of an Ayatollah Mirza Ahmad, a scholar and teacher in Karbala and Najaf theological centers, in Iraq.
		This further added to the religious and political awareness and maturity of the Iranian people that was demonstrated by their angry and massive response to the murder of Haj Mostafa Khomeini, the Imam's eldest son, in the winter o f1977 by the agents of the Shah's secret police, the Savak.
	www.salamiran.org /IranInfo/State/Leadership/Imam/ImamBiography.html (1127 words)

	Middle East Transparent - Ayatollah Khomeini's Grandson: Revolution Devoured its Children (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In the interview, Ayatollah Hussein Khomeini argued that the "rule of the jurisprudent" was not based on Shi'ite religious principle, but developed for historical reasons having to do with persecution of clerics in pre-revolutionary Iran.
		For example [Ayatollah Mahmoud] Taleqani, who was frequently imprisoned in the days of the Shah, and after the revolution was harshly persecuted by [the regime] for denouncing violations of the law.
		Khomeini further said that his meeting with the son of the deposed Shah Reza Pahlavi was "an ordinary meeting with a man who shares my suffering.
	www.metransparent.com /texts/memri_ayatollah_khomeiny_grandson.htm (847 words)

	IRAN - "Who was the Ayatollah Khomeini?" - Persian Journal Article Latest Iran news & Iranian newspaper ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Khomeini had demonstrated an unbending, single-minded resolve and capability to hold all institutions and individuals in line, but now, previously concealed dissent among the major players has sprung to the fore.
		Later in 1979, Khomeini's brand of "Islamic" revolution was tanamount to an invasion of Iran, which accurately describes the action of a foreign national taking over a country in which he was neither born nor had any Persian blood in his veins -- at all, paternally or maternally.
		In fact, one of the first actions which Khomeini took, within hours of his return to Iran, was to execute two prominent men who were living proof of his origin and also of his false ayatollah status.
	www.iranian.ws /iran_news/publish/article_15316.shtml (2968 words)

	Ruhollah Khomeini, Dictator of the Month November, 2005
		Ruhollah ibn Mustafa Musawi Khomeini Hindi was born in the town of Khomein on 24 September 1902 to father Seyed Moustafa Hindi and mother Hajar; his family had a very long history of religious prominence and scholarship.
		Khomeini through the 1930's and 1940's was not an activist but rather dedicated his time to religious study, despite Reza Shah's attempts to westernize Iran and suppress fundamentalism.
		Khomeini believed that the Western influences allowed into Iran in increasing amounts during the Pahlavi reign were corrupting the Iranian society.
	www.dictatorofthemonth.com /Khomeini/Nov2005KhomeiniEN.htm (1214 words)

	Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
		The motive of those demonstrations was the opposition of the shiites to the agrarian reform that confiscated their large rural estates, as well as their negative to accept women's emancipation proposed by the emperor.
		Once dissipated the produced growth by the developist policy put in practice by the shah, the interior opposition centered again its hopes in Khomeini, especially by the bazaaris, principal prejudiced by the foreign companies proliferation that began to be installed with the protection of the "white revolution" sponsored by the monarchy.
		Forced to abandon Iraq by the al-Bakr regime, Khomeini would set in Neauphle-le-Chatea in October, 1978, near Paris; from there he directed, with his wife and his minor son, the final phase of the struggle that peaked in the historical overthrow of the Pahlevi.
	members.tripod.com /~Mictlantecuhtli/Jomeini/jome1i.html (315 words)

	Grandson of Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini Calls for Seperation of Mosque and State
		Hossein Khomeini is related to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini by blood but not by the policy he espouses.
		Khomeini says he disagrees with the idea of an Islamic government, suggesting the concentration of authority in a supreme religious leader contradicts Islamic practice.
		Khomeini, who is now residing in Iraq, says the United States needs to focus more attention on Iranian reform movements but he stops short of advocating a repeat of the U.S. military intervention in Iraq for his country.
	www.payvand.com /news/03/sep/1165.html (483 words)

	American Coptic Assosciation
		CHILDREN as young as 13 were hanged from cranes, six at a time, in a barbaric two-month purge of Iran's prisons on the direct orders of Ayatollah Khomeini, according to a new book by his former deputy.
		Gruesome details are contained in the memoirs of Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri, The Memoirs of Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, one of the founders of the Islamic regime.
		He was once considered Khomeini's anointed successor, but was deposed for his outspokenness, and is now under house arrest in the holy city of Qom.
	www.amcoptic.com /fatawy_islamiah/khomeini_fatwa.htm (660 words)

	USATODAY.com - U.S. trying to deal with Sistani's growing influence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		With his long white beard and bushy fl eyebrows, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani resembles Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Shiite Muslim cleric who ousted the U.S.-backed shah of Iran a quarter-century ago and introduced theocracy to the modern Middle East.
		The other: Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, a critic of the Iranian regime who until recently was under house arrest in Iran's theological center of Qom.
		Khomeini (who governed Iran from 1979-1989), in contrast, expanded the Shiite concept of velayet e-faquih, or rule by a religious legal authority, into a full-blown theocracy.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2004-01-25-sistani_x.htm (1082 words)

	Mustafa Khomeini's tomb reopens \| Jafariya News Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		HOLY NAJAF, Iraq: The tomb of the martyr Ayatollah Sayed Mustafa Khomeini, the elder son of the founder of Islamic Republic of Iran Ayatollah Sayed Ruhollah Khomeini, reopened in the holy city of Najaf, Iraq, on Wednesday.
		Sayed Mustafa Khomeini was endowed with extraordinary intelligence and genius and as a distinguished scholar of the theological center in Qom, he stood by and aided his father throughout each stage of his struggle against the dictator Shah regime.
		Sayed Mustafa Khomeini was finally martyred on October 23, 1997 suspiciously by the cooperation of the intelligent agents of the deposed American-backed Iranian and Iraqi dictators Shah and Saddam in Iraq.
	www.jafariyanews.com /2k7_news/jan/4Mustafa_Khomeini_tomb.htm (185 words)

	REPOST: IRAN WAR FRAUD 25 Yr SCAM?
		In the meantime, Khomeini, residing in France, returned to Iran to lead the country in a bloody revolution.
		When Khomeini was on the plane going home, reporters asked him what he felt and he is quoted as replying “I feel nothing.” This was because Khomeini, far from being an Iranian patriot, may have hated Iranians for apparently killing his father.
		Khomeini was reputedly of Indian and English ancestry, according to the sources cited by “High Alert” and could not have cared less about the great Persian culture.
	www.freemarketnews.com /WorldNews.asp?nid=19038 (912 words)

	The 80s Server -- Icons: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
		As Khomeini continued to study and rise from the rank of pupil to ayatollah, he was angered by the interference of foreign powers in Iran.
		Khomeini vehemently attacked the shah's policies, prompting the shah to expel him from Iran in 1964.
		Khomeini then forged his doctrine of the "Rule of the Jurist," which called for the clergy to govern, and spread his ideas through a network of 12,000 students.
	www.80s.com /Icons/Bios/ayatollah_ruhollah_khomeini.html (367 words)

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