Ruhollah Khomeini: Leader of the Revolution

Ruhollah Khomeini

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was the ideological architect and Supreme Leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution. Born in Khomein, Persia (present-day Markazi Province, Iran) on September 24, 1902, he emerged as a fierce critic of the Shah's pro-American policies, leading to his exile in 1964. During his exile in Najaf and Paris, Khomeini developed the doctrine of Velayat-e Faqih (Guardianship of the Jurist). Returning to Iran in 1979, he consolidated power, established the Islamic Republic, and guided the nation through major Cold War crises, including the Iran-Iraq War and the U.S. Embassy hostage crisis, until his death in 1989.

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Year	Ruhollah Khomeini
1902	Birth of Ruhollah Khomeini (Period: September 24, 1902 (Disputed theories exist regarding birth year and date), Location: Khomein, Persia (present-day Khomein, Markazi Province, Iran))
1930	Marriage (Ruhollah Khomeini, Khadijeh Saqafi, Age: 27 years old, Period: 1929 or 1930 (varies by source), Location: Tehran, Iran)
1939	World War II (Age: 36 years old, Period: 1939–1945, Location: Iran)
1950	Rise as a religious leader (Age: 47 years old, Period: 1950s–1960s, Location: Qom, Iran)
1960	Formation of the theory of Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist (Age: 57 years old, Period: Late 1960s–1970s, Location: Najaf, Iraq)
1963	Opposition to the White Revolution (Age: 60 years old, Period: 1963, Location: Iran) Anti-government demonstrations and crackdowns in June 1963 (Age: 60 years old, Period: June 1963, Location: Tehran, Qom, Iran, etc.)
1964	Exile (Ruhollah Khomeini, Age: 62 years old, Period: November 4, 1964, Location: From Iran to Turkey)
1978	Relocation to near Paris and leadership of the revolutionary movement (Ruhollah Khomeini, Age: 76 years old, Period: October 1978 – January 1979, Location: Neauphle-le-Château, France)
1979	Iranian Revolution and return to Iran (Ruhollah Khomeini, Age: 76 years old, Period: February 1, 1979, Location: Tehran, Iran) Establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Age: 76 years old, Period: April 1, 1979, Location: Iran) Iran hostage crisis (Age: 77 years old, Period: November 4, 1979 – January 20, 1981, Location: US Embassy, Tehran, Iran) Approval of the new constitution (Age: 77 years old, Period: December 1979, Location: Iran)
1980	Iran–Iraq War (Age: 77 years old, Period: September 1980 – August 1988, Location: Iran–Iraq border region, Khuzestan Province, Persian Gulf, etc.)
1988	Acceptance of the cease-fire in the Iran–Iraq War (Age: 85 years old, Period: July–August 1988, Location: Iran, Iraq)
1989	Fatwa against Nobel laureate Salman Rushdie (Age: 86 years old, Period: February 14, 1989, Location: Issued to the international community from Iran) Death of Ruhollah Khomeini (Age: 86 years old, Period: June 3, 1989, Location: Tehran, Iran) Death of Khomeini (Age: 86 years old, Period: June 3, 1989, Location: Tehran, Iran)

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Iranian Revolution	Ruhollah Khomeini Ali Khamenei Abolhassan Banisadr Mehdi Bazargan Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Mohammad Beheshti Ali Shariati Sayyid Qutb Hassan al-Banna Mustafa Barzani

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