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The Egyptian Jihadist ideologue Sayyid Qutb was an important source of influence to Khomeini and the 1979 Iranian Revolution. The Islamic Republic of Iran under Khomeini honoured Qutb's "martyrdom" by issuing an iconic postage stamp in 1984, and before the revolution prominent figures in the Khomeini network translated Qutb's works into Persian.
Ruhollah Khomeini’s return to Iran on 1 February 1979, after 14 years in exile, was an important event in the Iranian Revolution. It led to the collapse of the provisional government of Shapour Bakhtiar and the final overthrow of the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi , on 11 February 1979.
Learn about the circumstances of the death and state funeral of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the Iranian Revolution and the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Find out how millions of mourners participated in his funeral procession and burial, and how a stampede killed eight people.
Shia cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the Iranian revolution, [11] first came to political prominence in 1963 when he led opposition to the Shah and his program of reforms known as the "White Revolution", which aimed to break up landholdings owned by some Shi’a clergy, allow women to vote and religious minorities to hold ...
Learn about the 1979 revolution that overthrew the Pahlavi dynasty and established an Islamic republic in Iran. Explore the background, causes, methods, results, and impacts of the revolution, as well as the key figures and parties involved.
Helmut Schmidt, Jimmy Carter, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, and James Callaghan.Photo taken during the Guadeloupe Conference which took place from 4 to 7 January 1979. In 2016, the BBC published a report which stated that the administration of United States President Jimmy Carter (1977–1981) had extensive contact with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and his entourage in the prelude to the Iranian ...
[58] [59] [60] The Basij is a paramilitary volunteer militia or "plainclothes militia" founded by the order of the Ayatollah Khomeini in November 1979. On November 4, 1979, in an address to the Revolutionary Guards during the Iran hostage crisis, Khomeini ordered the creation of an army of "twenty million Iranians" (Artesh-e bis million ...
The massacres have been called "Iran's greatest crime against humanity", [22] without precedent in modern Iranian history both in terms of scope and cover-up, [21]: 201 and have been denounced by deputy Supreme Leader of Iran at the time Ayatollah Montazeri, [23] the United Nations Human Rights Council, [24] and a number of countries such as ...