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Ayatollah Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini [b] (17 May 1900 or 24 September 1902 [a] – 3 June 1989) was an Iranian Islamic revolutionary, politician, and religious leader who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989. He was the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the main leader of the Iranian Revolution ...
Death and state funeral of Ruhollah Khomeini. Mourning men in residency of Khomeini around his seat area, Jamaran. Iranian officials and clerics, relatives and millions of followers. On 3 June 1989, at 22:20 IRST, Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, leader of the Iranian Revolution and the first Supreme Leader and founder of the Islamic Republic ...
Tahrir al-Wasilah (Arabic: تحرير الوسيلة; Exegesis of the Means of Salvation or Commentaries on the Liberation of the Intercession; in Persian: تحریر الوسیله Tahrir al-Vasileh) is a book by Ayatollah Khomeini as a commentary on a traditional theological text, and as a guide for Shia jurists on the opinions of Khomeini.
Islam and Revolution (Persian: اسلام و انقلاب) is a two-volume set of writings by Ayatollah/Imam Ruhollah Khomeini, which contain a collection of his speeches and writings. Islam and Revolution I: Writings and Declarations. The first volume covers the years 1941 to 1980, and was compiled and translated from Persian by Hamid Algar.
Ayatollah Khomeini was a senior Islamic jurist cleric of Shia Islam. Shia theology holds that Wilayah or Islamic leadership (political and religious) belongs to a divinely-appointed line of Shia Imams descended from a cousin ( Ali ) and daughter ( Fatima ) of the Islamic prophet Muhammad , the last of which is the 12th Imam, Muhammad al-Mahdi .
Ali Khamenei. Seyyed Ali Hosseini Khamenei [5] ( Persian: سید علی حسینی خامنهای, romanized : Ali Hoseyni Xāmene’i, pronounced [ʔæˈliː hosejˈniː xɒːmeneˈʔiː] ⓘ; born 19 April 1939) [14] [15] is an Iranian Twelver Shia marja' and politician who has served as the second supreme leader of Iran since 1989.
The Satanic Verses controversy, also known as the Rushdie Affair, was a controversy sparked by the 1988 publication of Salman Rushdie 's novel The Satanic Verses. It centered on the novel's references to the Satanic Verses ( apocryphal verses of the Quran), and came to include a larger debate about censorship and religious violence.
Death to America. Iranian protesters burning the flag of the United States along with a US Dollar in Tehran, November 2018. Death to America [a] is an anti-American political slogan widely used in North Korea (as Death to the United States imperialists [b] ), [1] [2] Iran, [3] Afghanistan, [4] Lebanon, [5] Yemen, [6] Iraq, [7] [8] and Pakistan.