Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini: The Mullah Who Transformed IranRichard Pearson
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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...
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...
There are already several good biography movies about writers. Truman Capote has had a couple films made about his life, including the Academy Award winningCapote, based on the author’s journey writing the true crime novelIn Cold Blood. William Shakespeare’s life has also hit the big screen...
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. ...
On July 20, 1988, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran when endorsing the UNSC cease-fire under Resolution 598 said: ''Taking this decision was more deadly than taking poison. I submitted myself to God's will and drank this drink for his satisfaction.'' The Ayatollah went on: ''I had pr...
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...
Imam Ayatollah Seyed Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini (May 17, 1900 – June 3, 1989) was a Muslim cleric andMarja, and the political leader of the 1979 Islamic Revolution of Iran which overthrew Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran. Following the Revolution, ...
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