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Ayatollah Khomeini
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Noun1.Ayatollah 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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Members of the Basij, set up by Iran's revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to defend the 1979 Islamic revolution, were used extensively to crack down on protesters after June's disputed presidential poll.
The studentsÕ action grew out of the Iranian revolution, in which supporters of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini overthrow Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, who had long ruled Iran.
The Mardomsalari newspaper cited "pressure" on the family of late revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to call off the speeches traditionally held at his shrine near Tehran to mark the seventh century death of Imam Ali, Shi ite Islam s most revered figure after the Prophet Mohammad.
 
 
 
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