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Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini

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Noun1.Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini - Iranian religious leader of the Shiites; when Shah Pahlavi's regime fell Khomeini established a new constitution giving himself supreme powers (1900-1989)


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Opposition had become united behind the Muslim traditionalist movement led by Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini.
A half century ago in Iran, the CIA engineered a coup that fueled lingering resentments of the United States, which ultimately found expression in the rise of Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini and fundamentalist Islam.
A ripped banner hangs above photos taken during the upheaval in Iran when the shah was overthrown and Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini took control.
 
 
 
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