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Topic: Ruhollah Khomeini


  
  Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Ruhollah Khomeini
Khomeini himself became instituted as the Supreme Leader for life, and officially decreed as the "Leader of the Revolution." On February 4, 1980, Abolhassan Banisadr was elected as the first president of Iran.
In 1929, Khomeini married Batol Saqafi Khomeini, the daughter of a cleric in Tehran.
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.
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 Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Khomeini's criticisms of Reza Shah Pahlevi led to his exile in 1964.
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.
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 Search Tuna Report for Ayatollah Khomeini   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Ruhollah Khomeini was the first Muslim cleric in modern times to create an Islamic government based solely on his personal conception of what such a government should entail....
The Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, a vocal critic of the Shah, was exiled in 1964....
Ruhollah Khomeini was born on September 24, 1902 in Khomein, Iran....
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 Ruhollah Khomeini - InfoSearchPoint.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (آیت‌الله روح‌الله خمینی in Persian) (May 17, 1900 - June 3, 1989) was an Iranian Shiite fundamentalist cleric and the political and spiritual leader of the 1979 revolution that overthrew Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the then Shah of Iran.
He is considered to be the founder of the modern Shiite State and ruled Iran from the Shah's overthrow to his death in 1989.
Khomeini became the center of a large personality cult, and opposition to the religous rule or Islam in general was often met with very harsh punishments.
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 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.
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 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
Settling in Iraq, Khomeini continued his outspoken denunciations, developing a strong religious and political following abroad, until forced to leave (1978) by Saddam
, Khomeini returned triumphantly to Iran in 1979, declared an Islamic republic, and began to exercise ultimate authority in the nation.
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