Ayatollah Khomeini facts for kids
Ayatollah Khomeini was born Sayyed Ruhollah Mustafavi Khomeini, 24 September 1902 in Khomein, Central Iran (then Persia), and died 3 June 1989) (Persian: روح الله موسوی خمینی). He was also known as 'Imam Khomeini'. Khomein was the political leader of the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
Khomeini was also a poet. His poems are collected together in an Imam Divan. Khomeini died of intestinal cancer and a heart attack on June 3, 1989, in Tehran at the age of 87.
Political life
On June 5, 1964, Khomeini was arrested and sent into exile. He was exiled to Iraq, Turkey and then to France. Khomeini gave many speeches in France against Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran. On January 16, 1979, Pahlavi left Iran. Two weeks later, on February 1, Khomeini returned to Iran.
He received a traditional religious education in Qom (city in Iran). When he lived in Najaf (a holy city in Iraq) for some years, he spoke about Islam ideas about Government. During that time, he refined his theory of velayat-e faqih ("government of the jurist").
On February 11, 1979, Khomeini appointed his first own prime minister, Medhi Bazargan. On March 30, 1979 a referendum took place in Iran and as a result, the monarchy was replaced with an Islamic Republic. After the Islamic Revolution, Khomeini became Supreme Leader of Iran.
Rushdie fatwa
In early 1989 Khomeini issued a fatwā calling for Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie and "all those involved in the publication" of his book called The Satanic Verses. Rushdie has never been killed. However the Japanese translator of the book was killed in 1991.
Gallery
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A boy who liked Khomeini
Images for kids
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Ruhollah Khomeini's birthplace at Khomeyn
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Khomeini as a student with his friends (second from right)
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Khomeini in 1938
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Khomeini in exile at Bursa, Turkey without clerical dress
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Khomeini at Najaf
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Khomeini in the 1970s
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Ayatollah Khomeini in front of his house at Neauphle-le-Chateau in a media conference
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Khomeini in 1978
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Khomeini and the interim prime minister, Mehdi Bazargan
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Khomeini with people
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Carpet given to Khotan mosque by Ayatollah Khomeini
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Ruhollah Khomeini with Ahmad Khomeini and Mohammad-Ali Rajai
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Mourning men in residence of Khomeini around his seat area, Jamaran, 4 June 1989.
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Khomeini and his successor, Ali Khamenei
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Khomeini in the 1980s
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Khomeini and a child.
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See also
In Spanish: Ruhollah Jomeiní para niños
