# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ruhollah-khomeini
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:48:43.956Z

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description: "He led the 1979 revolution that toppled the Shah and turned Iran into an Islamic republic, then ruled it as supreme leader for a decade—issuing the fatwa against Salman Rushdie, branding the U.S. the \"Great Satan,\" and presiding over the hostage crisis and the Iran–Iraq War."
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deathDate: "1989-06-03"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Khomeyn in 1900, Ruhollah Khomeini lost his father to murder at age two and grew up steeped in Quranic study, eventually rising to become a high-ranking Twelver Shi'a cleric—an ayatollah, author of over forty books, and expert in Islamic jurisprudence. His opposition to the Shah's White Revolution sent him into exile in 1964, first to Turkey, then to Najaf, where he developed his theory of Guardianship of the Jurist and laid the intellectual ground for theocratic rule. When the revolution succeeded in 1979, he returned as de facto head of state, then supreme leader by year's end. His decade in power brought the Iran hostage crisis, the grinding war with Iraq that deployed child soldiers in human wave assaults, mass executions of political prisoners in 1988, and a pervasive cult of personality that made insult a crime. His funeral drew ten million mourners. Inside Iran his tomb is a shrine; outside, the accounting is sharper.