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- Birth nameRuhollah Mousavi Khomeini Hindizadeh
- Height5′ 9¼″ (1.76 m)
- Sayyid Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini (17 May 1900 - 3 June 1989), also known as Ayatollah Khomeini, was an Iranian political and religious leader who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989. He was the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, which saw the overthrow of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and the end of the Persian monarchy. Following the revolution, Khomeini became the country's first supreme leader, a position created in the constitution of the Islamic Republic as the highest-ranking political and religious authority of the nation, which he held until his death. Most of his period in power was taken up by the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-1988. He was succeeded by Ali Khamenei on 4 June 1989.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Bonitao
- Grey beard
- Turban
- Political and religious ruler of Iran (1979-1989).
- When the Ayatollah died in 1989, tens of thousands of mourners crowded the streets of Teheran and a small crowd hoisted the bier on their shoulders to carry it themselves. But the shoving crowd was so grief-stricken that they tore the shroud that covered him and knocked his body to the ground. After the crowds were cleared, Khomeini was buried in a metal coffin.
- Was exiled to Iraq and then Turkey and then France before returning to Iran to overthrow the Shah.
- In 1988 he issued a legal edict, or fatwa, saying Salman Rushdie should be killed for his novel, "The Satanic Verses".
- Is mentioned in Christopher Hitchens' book "God is not Great", in relation to the fatwa. Hitchens comments that the Ayatollah probably had not read "The Satanic Verses", and probably could not read it either.
- Neither does Jimmy Carter have the guts for military action, nor does anyone listen to him.
- Islam is politics or it is nothing
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