Ayatollah Sayyed Ruhollah Mousavi Khomeini was a Muslim cleric and Marja, and the political leader of the 1979 Islamic Revolution of Iran which overthrew Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran.

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They are unlikely, however, to hear about a fatwa issued by the late Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini calling for Rushdie’s death, according to District Attorney Jason Schmidt.

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Hezbollah’s Islamic Resistance in Lebanon extended its warmest congratulations to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, and the Iranian nation on the 46th ...

Ruhollah Khomeini, a Shiite cleric, along with his follower Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, led opposition to the Shah and demanded his removal. In 1964, Khomeini was exiled to Iraq, while Khamenei faced ...

Born on or around 1900, Khomeini ruled Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989. A leading religious authority, he became a rallying point for opposition to the Shah, who exiled him to Turkey in 1964.