Ruhollah Khomeini Quotes


We studied Western journalists' reporting methods, fed them story ideas, steered them toward sympathetic interviewees, and supplied them with the revolutionary movement's facts and figures.


Citations

Interview with Andrew Scott Cooper on the means by which his revolutionary movement manipulated the Western Press Andrew Scott Coope, The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran, 2016

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Ruhollah Khomeini
Ruhollah Khomeini
  • Born: May 17, 1900
  • Died: June 3, 1989
  • Nationality: Islam
  • Profession: Statesman

Sayyid Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini, also known in the Western world as Ayatollah Khomeini, was an Iranian political and religious leader. He was the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, which saw the overthrow of the last Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and the end of the 2,500-year-old Persian monarchy. Following the revolution, Khomeini became the country's Supreme Leader, a position created in the constitution of the Islamic Republic as the highest-ranking political and religious authority of the nation, which he held until his death. Most of his reign was taken up by the Iran–Iraq War of 1980–1988. He was succeeded by Ali Khamenei on 4 June 1989.