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Prostate</a><br><b>Remains:</b> Buried, Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery, Tehran, Iran<br><p><b>Gender:</b> Male<br><b>Religion:</b> <a href="/lists/607/000085352/" class=proflink>Shia Muslim</a><br><b>Race or Ethnicity:</b> Middle Eastern<br><b>Sexual orientation:</b> Straight<br><b>Occupation:</b> <a href="/lists/203/000068996/" class=proflink>Religion</a><p><b>Nationality:</b> Iran<br><b>Executive summary:</b> Leader of Islamic Republic of Iran<p><b>Wife:</b> (m. 1929, seven children)<br><b>Son:</b> Mostafa (d. 1977)<br><b>Son:</b> Ahmad Khomeini (d. 1995)<br><p> <a href="/gov/980/000111647/">Supreme Leader of Iran</a> (3-Dec-1979 to 3-Jun-1989, his death)<br> <a href="/honors/347/000059170/">Time Person of the Year</a> 1979<br> <a href="/event/921/000084669/">Exiled</a> to Paris, France (1978-79)<br> <a href="/event/921/000084669/">Exiled</a> to Iraq (1965-78)<br> <a href="/event/921/000084669/">Exiled</a> to Turkey (1964-65)<br> <a href="/event/679/000395491/">Granted Asylum</a> by France (1970s)<br> <a href="/event/342/000362253/">Declared Holy War</a> against Iranian Kurds (18-Aug-1979)<br> <a href="/event/342/000362253/">Declared Holy War</a> against Iraq (19-Oct-1980), renounced (Jul-1988)<br><p> <b>Rotten Library Page:</b><br><a href="http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/religion/ayatollah-khomeni/">Ayatollah Khomeini</a><p> <br> <p> <table> <tr> <td align=right valign=middle style="padding-right: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: italic; color: #ff3333;">New!</span><br> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a></td> <td valign=middle align=right style="border-left: 1px solid #bbb; padding-left: 5px;">Create a map starting with</td> <td valign=middle align=right><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=31822"><img src="/man.gif" border=0 style="padding: 2px;"></a></td> <td align=left valign=middle> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=31822">Ayatollah Khomeini</a></td> </tr> </table> <font face="Trebuchet MS, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="-2">Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.</font> <br><br><p> <font size=-1>Do you know something we don't?</font><br> <font size=-1><a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=31822" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a></font><br> <p> <br><br><p><font size=-1>Copyright ©2019 Soylent Communications</font><p> </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"></td></tr> </table> </center> </body> </html>