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How Imam Khomeini Rose from Orphaned Scholar to Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution

How Imam Khomeini Rose from Orphaned Scholar to Leader of

The late Imam Khomeini remains one of the most influential religious and political figures of the 20th century, remembered for leading the Islamic Revolution that transformed Iran from a monarchy into an Islamic Republic in 1979. Born Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini on September 24, 1902, in the town of Khomein, about 350 kilometres south of Tehran, Imam Khomeini’s life was marked …

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