Ayatollah khomeini iran biography parents guide
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Ruhollah Khomeini
Supreme Leader of Iran from 1979 to 1989
For other people named Khomeini, see Khomeini (name).
"Khomeini" redirects here. Not to be confused with his successor, Ali Khamenei.
Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini[b] (17 May 1900 or 24 September 1902[a] – 3 June 1989) was an Iranian Islamist revolutionary, politician 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 main leader of the Iranian revolution, which overthrew Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and ended the Iranian monarchy. Ideologically a Shia Islamist, Khomeini's religious and political ideas are known as Khomeinism.
Born in Khomeyn, in what is now Iran's Markazi province, his father was murdered in 1903 when Khomeini was just two years old. He began studying the Quran and Arabic from a young age and was assisted in his religious studies by his relatives, including his moth
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Ayatollah Khomeini: Holy Terror
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more balanced than you expect
I was not expecting much from this biography. It is titled Ayatollah Khomeini: Holy Terror. Americans are very upset with him for the hostage crisis, and I expected to learn he was more wicked than Hitler in a one-sided diatribe. However, the documentary manages to show him from many different angles. Even though we hated him, the Iranian people did not. Even though we think an Islamic theocracy is insane, the Iranian people did not. The movie made that clear. The documentary shows that Khomeini was democratically elected. It also showed why Iranians would be so upset with Americans backing the Shah. It even revealed that the hostage crisis was about getting the Shah (who was in the USA at the time) extradited for his crimes. At the time, I don't think I ever heard about that Iranian demand. I thought this was remarkably balanced for an American-made documentary.
However, the documentary dishones
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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 bygd the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-1988. He was succeeded by Ali Khamenei on 4 June 1989.
BornSeptember 24, 1902
DiedJune 3, 1989(86)