Ruhollah Khomeini

Ruhollah Mostafavi Musavi Khomeini was an Iranian political revolutionary and Shia cleric who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989. He was the leader of the Iranian Revolution, which overthrew Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, ended the Pahlavi era, and transformed the country into an Islamic republic. As supreme leader, he implemented policies that came to be known as Khomeinism.

The Iranian Revolution, also known as the Islamic Revolution, culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1979. The revolution led to the replacement of the Imperial State of Iran by the Islamic Republic of Iran, as the monarchical government of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was superseded by Ruhollah Khomeini, an Islamist cleric who had headed one of the rebel factions. The ousting of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran, formally marked the end of Iran's historical monarchy.

The Iran–Iraq War began with the Iraqi invasion of Iran in September 1980. After eight years of conflict, both countries accepted a ceasefire deal brokered by the United Nations, which became effective in August 1988. The war caused around 500,000 deaths, making it the deadliest conventional war ever fought between regular armies of developing countries.

The supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, officially styled as the leader of the Islamic Revolution or the leadership of the Islamic jurist by the Iranian Constitution, is the highest political and religious authority in Iran, taking precedence above the president who is the country's de jure head of state. The armed forces, judiciary, state radio and television, and other key government organizations such as the Guardian Council and Expediency Discernment Council are subject to the supreme leader.

Major international airport in Tehran, Iran

Neauphle-le-Château (; 'Neauphle-the-Castle') is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.

Khomeyn () is a city in the Central District of Khomeyn County, Markazi province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.

mausoleum in metropolitan Tehran, Iran

theory in Shia Islam which holds that Islam gives a faqīh (Islamic jurist) custodianship over people

anti-American political slogan

epithet used by the Iranian government, referring to the United States

government of Iran from February to November 1979

anti-Zionist epithet for Israel, used especially by Iran

referendum in Iran on 30 and 31 March 1979

revolutionary group in the Iranian Revolution

1963 public backlash in Pahlavi-dynasty Iran

thumb|The national flag of Iran|flag and emblem of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which is widely used as a symbol to represent Khomeinism.

court system in Iran

changing cultural demographics by force in Iran after 1979 revolution

Iranian multi-day holiday

1989 letter from Iran's ruler to the leader of the Soviet Union

A quasi-governmental organization under the supervision of the Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran

slogan by Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini

part of the Iranian Revolution

reaction of Muslims to a 1988 novel

1989 funeral of the 1st supreme leader of Iran

overview of Israel's role in the Iran–Iraq War

1979 return of the Iranian religious leader

1979 attack on the U.S. embassy to Pakistan in Islamabad

Iranian government body for keeping Perso-Islamic culture and education

mosque in Tehran, Iran

conspiracy theory about the Iranian Revolution

manifesto by Ayatollah Khomeini for a theocratic Islamic state

book by Ruhollah Khomeini

Khomeini's life in exile from 1964 to 1979

turbulent process of Islamic Republic stabilization

mosque in Isfahan, Iranian national heritage site

book by Ruhollah Khomeini

hussainiya in Tehran, Iranian national heritage site