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	Ruhollah Khomeini - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Khomeini was considered a spiritual leader to many Shi'a Muslims, and ruled Iran from the Shah's overthrow to Khomeini's own death in 1989, as a dictator, however with undeniable charismatic appeal to many.
		Khomeini became the center of a large personality cult, and opposition to the religious rule of the clergy or Islam in general was often met with harsh punishments.
		Khomeini's granddaughter, Zahra Eshraghi, is married to Mohammad Reza Khatami, head of the Islamic Iran Participation Front, the main reformist party in the country, and is considered a pro-reform character herself.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ayatollah_Khomeini (2409 words)

	Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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 (389 words)

	MSN Encarta - Ayatollah Khomeini
		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 /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761562182 (675 words)

	Ruhollah Khomeini - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ayatollah Seyyed Ruhollah Khomeini (آیت‌الله روح‌الله خمینی in Persian) was an Iranian Shi'a Muslim cleric, and the political and spiritual leader of the 1979 Islamic Revolution which saw the overthrow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran.
		Ahmad Khomeini, the younger son, died in 1995, under mysterious circumstances.
		Khomeini's grandson, Hossein Khomeini, is a middle level cleric, who is sympathetic to American neoconservative and pro-Israel interests (he has lectured at the American Enterprise Institute) and strongly against the system of the Islamic Republic (see [[1]]).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Khomeini (2417 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 (2089 words)

	AEI - Events
		KHOMEINI [through interpreter]: He says certainly the injustice towards women in Iran is beyond either explanation or justification and all of us have been quite aware of it.
		KHOMEINI [through interpreter]: I think that anyone who is willing to step into the field, who has the will-power and the dynamism to lead Iranians into freedom should be there, and this is the only condition that they should have.
		KHOMEINI [through interpreter]: One should think how deep the problem and the pressures are in Iran on the Iranian people, that there are so many of them who in fact crave for some sort of foreign intervention to get rid of this calamity.
	www.aei.org /events/filter.,eventID.630/transcript.asp (4212 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Khomeini was elevated to the status of Ayatollah in the 1950s.
		Early in his rule, Khomeini was popularly known as "Leader of the Revolution." Later he held the title of "Supreme Spiritual Leader." He is considered to be the founder of the modern Shiite State, and he called for similar Islamic revolutions across the Middle East.
		Khomeini's fatwa against Rushdie was consistent with his preferred method of dealing with "infidels." "If one permits an infidel to continue in his role as a corrupter of the earth," said Khomeini, "his moral suffering will be all the worse.
	www.discoverthenetwork.org /individualProfile.asp?indid=670 (431 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.
		Khomeini relocated to a suburb of Paris in 1978.
	www.hyperhistory.net /apwh/bios/b1khomeini.htm (1389 words)

	Ruhollah Khomeini -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Khomeini was named an (A high-ranking Shiite religious leader who is regarded as an authority on religious law and its interpretation and who has political power as well) ayatollah in the (The decade from 1950 to 1959) 1950s.
		Under Khomeini's rule Shia Islamic law was instituted, the strict Islamic dress code ((The custom in some Islamic societies of women dressing modestly outside the home) hijab) became the law and was enforced for both men and women.
		Khomeini became the center of a large (Click link for more info and facts about personality cult) personality cult, and opposition to the religious rule or Islam in general was often met with harsh punishments.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ru/ruhollah_khomeini.htm (811 words)

	(10/26/2001) Why They Hate Us, Part II
		Khomeini was exiled the next year and between then and his triumphant return after the 1979 revolution, Iran sank deeper into the mire.
		Khomeini was in control of the courts, the state-run media, and, after purging the officer's ranks, Khomeini owned the military.
		Khomeini preached hate against secular Arab regimes like Saudi Arabia as much as he denounced America, and leaders in those countries knew that it was a popular message for their fundamentalist minorities that made up 2 - 20 percent of their population.
	www.monitor.net /monitor/0110a/islamwest2.html (3087 words)

	Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
		Khomeini was descended from the Mussavi Sayyeds, a family tracing its lineage from the Prophet Muhammad through the Shiite seventh imam, Musa al-Kazem.
		Khomeini came to believe that he embodied this "Perfect Man." So preoccupied did he become with his mission that after the revolution, officials who came to see him often left complaining that he had no time or patience for real people with real problems.
		By the early 1960s, Khomeini had become the point man in Shia religious resistance against modernizing reforms in Iran, embodied in the Shah's self-styled "White Revolution." The Shia had also been deeply offended by the Shah's glorification of Iran's Persian past in his coronation ceremony (held in 1971).
	www.nmhschool.org /tthornton/mehistorydatabase/ayatollah_ruhollah_khomeini.htm (496 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Guardian daily comment \| The ayatollah's legacy still marks the Middle East
		Baqer Moin, the author of an excellent new biography of Khomeini, from which these illuminating details are drawn, notes in his introduction that the passage of time is beginning to allow a more historical view of Khomeini's career.
		While the counter-factual is always difficult to argue, it may be that, without Khomeini, the war with Iraq would never have happened or, if he had intervened to end it at an earlier stage, which Moin suggests he briefly contemplated doing, it would have been a less traumatic conflict for both countries.
		Khomeini was a man with an endearing side, who gleefully swam for the first time in the sea at the age of 63, and who composed touching letters on the mystical path for his daughter-in-law.
	www.guardian.co.uk /comment/story/0,3604,289402,00.html (1145 words)

	frontline: terror and tehran: chronology - u.s. iran relations, 1906-2002 \| PBS
		Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, a leading cleric in the religious city of Qom, is arrested after he harshly criticizes the shah.
		Khomeini is exiled to Turkey for his outspoken denunciation of the shah's Status of Forces bill, which grants U.S. military personnel diplomatic immunity for crimes committed on Iranian soil.
		On Feb. 1, Khomeini returns after nearly 15 years in exile and is given a triumphant welcome in Tehran.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/tehran/etc/cron.html (3507 words)

	Short Biography of Imam Khomeini (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Imam Khomeini was born into a religious family; his father, Ayatollah Seyyed Mustafa Musavi was educated in Najaf and Samarra, and later returned to his birthplace, Khomein, where he was the religious leader of the people until his death at the age of 42.
		At the age of 30, Imam Khomeini married the daughter of a religious scholar and their marriage was blessed with two sons and three daughters.
		The exile of Imam Khomeini to Izmir, Turkey, is the worst of all violating Article 14 of the Constitution of Iran to the effect that no Iranian shall be sent into exile or forced to leave his residence to reside elsewhere, unless otherwise stipulated by the law.
	www.irna.ir /occasion/ertehal/english/biog (2614 words)

	Mullahs' Credibility And Legitimacy
		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.
		He re- fused to accept Ruhollah Khomeini as an ayatollah and with the influence Mussa Sadr enjoyed, he became an insurmountable obstacle to Khomeini's political plans, and of those who supported the over- throw of the Shah and needed a despot like Khomeini to be their cat's paw.
		Prior to his return to Iran in 1979, Khomeini openly stated that he would kill as many Iranians he considered everyone in Iran guilty in advance as there were hairs on the head of his son, killed in a car accident, but in his mind killed by Iranian authorities.
	www.venusproject.com /ecs/mullahs_legitimacy.html (3281 words)

	CNN - Iran marks 20th anniversary of Islamic revolution - January 31, 1999
		Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, arrested and sent away in 1964 for opposing Iran's shah, triumphantly ended 15 years of exile from his homeland that day.
		Under Khomeini's spiritual leadership, the Iranians thumbed their collective noses at the might of the West and threatened to export their brand of fundamentalism outside Iran's borders.
		Khomeini died just five months after calling for the death of author Salman Rushdie for insulting Islam in his book "Satanic Verses." He was succeeded by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as the country's spiritual leader.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/meast/9901/31/iran.20th (516 words)

	repackaging khomeini
		Given the economic, political, and social needs to which Khomeini responded, the revolution is best understood as the work of a pragmatic reformer, not that of fundamentalists who sought to enforce an obscurantist vision.
		Exploring first Khomeini's vision of the state, he traces the development of Khomeini's views from Kashf al-Asrar (1943), which embraced the traditional Shi`i position that monarchy is permissible, to the revolutionary doctrine of Velayat-e Faqih (1970), which declares that monarchy is incompatible with Islam.
		While Khomeini may have avoided antagonizing the propertied classes, he nevertheless adopted the symbols of radical discontent, exemplified by the Republic's conspicuous 1979 celebration of May Day.
	www.stanford.edu /group/SHR/5-1/text/blecher.html (1250 words)

	S Y N T H E S I S - The Way of the Fanatic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It was for the election of these experts that the Muslim masses voted on December 10th.”[26] at a unity conference in Sri Lanka from 28th December 1982 to 2nd January 1983, the ulema unveiled its desire to export the Iranian Revolution further afield by encouraging Islamic subversion around the world.
		In doing so they have made their distinct contribution to world history.”[33] Indeed, whereas the old ulema had often sided with those regimes firmly under the control of the Zionist heel, by 1962 the revitalised ulema was in a position to agitate in the cities, streets and mosques of Iran.
		Iman Ruhollah Khomeini, quoted in Hamid Enayat’s Iran: Khumayni’s Concept of the ‘Guardianship of the Jurisconsult’ in James P. Piscatori (ed.) Islam In the Political Process, (Cambridge University Press, 1983), p.
	www.rosenoire.org /articles/hist6.php (1692 words)

	Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Khomeini's criticisms of Reza Shah Pahlevi led to his exile in 1964.
		Following the revolution that deposed Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlevi, Khomeini returned triumphantly to Iran in 1979, declared an Islamic republic, and began to exercise ultimate authority in the nation.
		Khomeini's rule was marked by the Iran hostage crisis and the Iran-Iraq War.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/K/Khomeini.asp (516 words)

	The Scotsman - International - Khomeini's grandson: US can free Iran (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		THE grandson of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the cleric who launched an anti-American Islamic revolution in Iran that sparked 25 years of unrest in the Muslim world, has condemned his country’s clerical regime and suggested military intervention by the United States as a possible path to liberation.
		This weekend, Mr Khomeini was told by two different sources that a group of assassins had crossed the Iranian border and were trying to hunt him down.
		But Mr Khomeini said he was not afraid that his words would bring harm to him or his wife and three children.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /international.cfm?id=844422003 (849 words)

	Search Tuna Report for Ayatollah Khomeini (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ayatollah Khomeini, who led the Islamic Revolution in 1979 and was vocal in his criticism of the West and its culture, left a huge number of works, mainly of Islamic theory and sayings....
		The Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, a vocal critic of the Shah, was exiled in 1964....
		Khomeini was born September 24, 1902 in the western Iranian city of Khomein to Sayyid Mustafa, whose father, Sayyid Ahmad, had settled there some fifty years earlier....
	www.searchtuna.com /ftlive2/1075.html (2818 words)

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