Ruhollah Khomeini
Supreme Leader of Iran from 1979 to 1989 · Iran · Politicians · Lived 1902 to 1989 · aged 86
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Something wrong?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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Letter from Jimmy Carter to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini Regarding the Release of the Iranian HostagesIn their own words 10
, Allah did not create man so that he could have fun. The aim of creation was for mankind to be put to the test through hardship and prayer.
The great prophet of Islam in one hand carried the Koran and in the other a sword; the sword for crushing the traitors and the Koran for guidance.
We have sacrificed much blood and many martyrs. Islam has sacrificed blood and martyrs.
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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.
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