Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini: The Mullah Who Transformed IranRichard Pearson
Mr Khamenei eventually went into exile in the 1960s, only re-emerging after the Shah was overthrown. He was a close confidante of the leader who emerged after the revolution - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini - and Mr Khamenei quickly rose through the ranks of government. After other key...
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At the age of 16, he went to Iraq’s holy Shiite city of Najaf where the leader of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, lived in exile at the time and taught theology. Later, Nasrallah studied in the city of Qom, the seat of Iran’s religious hierarch...
Death threats were made against him, including a fatwā calling for his assassination issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran, on 14 February 1989. The British government put Rushdie under police protection. In 1983 Rushdie was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of ...
a former vocal supporter of a Sharia law-based Islamic government in Iran who parted ways with the new regime shortly after the revolution and was later executed in early 1990. A former close friend told IranWire about Sobhani’s fallout with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, his subsequent life unde...
The 43-year-old Rushdie, who was born in India of Muslim parents, has been in hiding under police guard for 22 months since Iran’s late leader, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, angrily accused him of blasphemy against Islam and offered $1 million to anyone who would kill him. ...
Ayatollah Imam Khomeini — considered offensive to Islam and the Prophet. Though Rushdie publicly apologized, the fatwa was not revoked, Imam Khomeini explaining that “even if Salman Rushdie repents and becomes the most pious man of all time, it is incumbent on...
Forgive me Sisi for piling up different examples of the same point, but this is important. Let me tap from a far-flung country, a distant history – from the Iran-Iraq war of 1980 – 88. On July 20, 1988, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran when endorsing the UNSC cease-fire under ...
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