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Mostafa and his brother Ahmad became part of Khomeini's underground movement. [5] The group also included Mohammad Beheshti and Morteza Motahhari. [5] In 1970 Khomeini asked Hassan Shirazi who had been released from prison to go to Lebanon to find individual and institutional supporters. [4] Shirazi carried out this activity in Lebanon until ...
The Khomeini family is an Iranian Shia family that claims descent from the seventh Imam, Musa al-Kadhim. The family includes Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and his sons and grandsons who are also clerics and politicians.
The populist side of Khomeini's economic legacy is said to be found in President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who allegedly "mirrored" Khomeini's disdain for the "donkey" science of economics, wearing "his contempt for economic orthodoxy as a badge of honour", and overseeing sluggish growth and rising inflation and unemployment under his administration.
Ali Khamenei is the current Supreme Leader of Iran and the successor of Ruhollah Khomeini. He is a Twelver Shi'a cleric, a former president and prime minister, and a commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Ruhollah Khomeini was the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution. He was a prominent Shi'a cleric and a grand ayatollah who influenced the development of the concept of velayat-e faqih.
Learn about the period that Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini spent from 1964 to 1979 in Turkey, Iraq and France, after being arrested and deported by the Shah of Iran. Find out how he continued his political and religious activities, wrote books, and plotted the overthrow of the Shah's regime.
Hassan Rouhani is an Iranian politician who served as the seventh president of Iran from 2013 to 2021. He is a moderate cleric who advocated for diplomacy and nuclear negotiations with the West, and faced domestic challenges such as protests and sanctions.
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