Ruhollah Khomeini

Known for ActingBorn 1902-09-24Died 1989-06-03Khomeyn, Persia

Ruhollah Khomeini, Ayatollah Khomeini, Imam Khomeini (17 May 1900 – 3 June 1989) was an Iranian political and religious leader who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989. He was the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, which saw the overthrow of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and the end of the Persian monarchy. Following the revolution, Khomeini became the country's first supreme leader, a position created in the constitution of the Islamic Republic as the highest-ranking political and religious authority of the nation, which he held until his death. Most of his period in power was taken up by the Iran–Iraq War of 1980–1988. He was succeeded by Ali Khamenei on 4 June 1989.Read more

Movies & web series

Do You Believe in Miracles? The Story of the 1980 U.S. Hockey Team

Desert Storm: The War Begins

1979 - The Year Of The Islamist Revolution

Der Schah und der Ayatollah

Coup 53

Stronger Than a Bullet

Guests of the Ayatollah

Before the Revolution

Iran, Utopia on the Move

All Three of Us

HyperNormalisation

The Queen and the Coup

History 101

Mostashregh

Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol

Russia, China, Iran: The Axis of Revenge

Decadence and Downfall: The Shah of Iran's Ultimate Party

Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail

Mike Wallace Is Here

A Dying King: The Shah of Iran

Reagan

Inhumanities II: Modern Atrocities

1979: Big Bang of the Present

Fatal News

Iran, Israel and the Bomb

Child Soldier

Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World?

Inside the Iranian Uprising

Fiasco

Khomeini

The last two days

Bazm-e Razm

Код доступа

From Tehran to Cairo

37 Days

Holy Crime

Rockin' Ronnie

Oriana Fallaci intervista Ayatollah Khomeini

Kill the Mahdi Araghi