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You should also check this article's <a href="/wiki/Talk:Ruhollah_Khomeini" title="Talk:Ruhollah Khomeini">talk page</a> to see if the person who added this message left an explanation there. <span style="font-size:75%;">This page has been listed as needing cleanup since <a href="/w/index.php?title=2020-03-18&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="2020-03-18 (page does not exist)">2020-03-18</a>.</span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Imam_Khomeini_Potrait.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Imam_Khomeini_Potrait.jpg/220px-Imam_Khomeini_Potrait.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="330" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Imam_Khomeini_Potrait.jpg/330px-Imam_Khomeini_Potrait.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Imam_Khomeini_Potrait.jpg/440px-Imam_Khomeini_Potrait.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1667" data-file-height="2500" /></a><figcaption>Anyone who will say that religion is separate from politics is a fool; he does not know Islam or politics.</figcaption></figure> <p>Grand <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayatollah" class="extiw" title="w:Ayatollah">Ayatollah</a> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhollah_Khomeini" class="extiw" title="w:Ruhollah Khomeini">Sayyid Ruhollah Mūsavi Khomeini</a></b> (Persian: سید روح‌الله موسوی خمینی‎ ; <a href="/wiki/21_September" class="mw-redirect" title="21 September">21 September</a> <a href="/wiki/1902" class="mw-disambig" title="1902">1902</a> – <a href="/wiki/3_June" class="mw-redirect" title="3 June">3 June</a> <a href="/wiki/1989" class="mw-disambig" title="1989">1989</a>) often referred as <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imamah_(Shia_doctrine)" class="extiw" title="w:Imamah (Shia doctrine)">Imam</a> Khomeini</b> was an <a href="/wiki/Iranian" class="mw-redirect" title="Iranian">Iranian</a> <a href="/wiki/Islamic" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic">Islamic</a> cleric and the <a href="/wiki/Political" class="mw-redirect" title="Political">political</a> and <a href="/wiki/Religious" class="mw-redirect" title="Religious">religious</a> leader of the <a href="/wiki/Islamic_Revolution" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic Revolution">Islamic Revolution</a> which overthrew the <a href="/wiki/Muhammad_Reza_Pahlavi" class="mw-redirect" title="Muhammad Reza Pahlavi">Shah of Iran</a> and brought an end to the <a href="/wiki/Imperial_State_of_Iran" title="Imperial State of Iran">Imperial State of Iran</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Quotes">Quotes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ruhollah_Khomeini&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Quotes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%D8%B9%DA%A9%D8%B3%DB%8C_%D8%A7%D8%B2_%D8%AE%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%86%DB%8C.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/%D8%B9%DA%A9%D8%B3%DB%8C_%D8%A7%D8%B2_%D8%AE%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%86%DB%8C.JPG/220px-%D8%B9%DA%A9%D8%B3%DB%8C_%D8%A7%D8%B2_%D8%AE%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%86%DB%8C.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="274" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/%D8%B9%DA%A9%D8%B3%DB%8C_%D8%A7%D8%B2_%D8%AE%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%86%DB%8C.JPG/330px-%D8%B9%DA%A9%D8%B3%DB%8C_%D8%A7%D8%B2_%D8%AE%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%86%DB%8C.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/%D8%B9%DA%A9%D8%B3%DB%8C_%D8%A7%D8%B2_%D8%AE%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%86%DB%8C.JPG 2x" data-file-width="352" data-file-height="439" /></a><figcaption> ... the imperialists really have no religious belief, Christian or Islamic. Rather, throughout this long historical period, and going back to the Crusades, they felt that the major obstacle in the path of their materialistic ambitions and the chief threat to their political power was nothing but Islam and its ordinances, and the belief of the people in Islam.</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1942">1942</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ruhollah_Khomeini&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: 1942"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>There are hundreds of other [Koranic] psalms and hadiths urging Muslims to value war and to fight. Does all that mean that Islam is a religion that prevents men from waging war? I spit upon those foolish souls who make such a claim. <ul><li>Excerpted from "Islam Is Not a Religion of Pacifists" (1942), English translation in Barry Rubin and Judith Colp Rubin, Anti-American Terrorism and the Middle East (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), pp. 29, 32-36.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1979">1979</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ruhollah_Khomeini&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 1979"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a> grew with blood. The great religions of the preceding prophets and the momentous religion of Islam, while clutching <a href="/wiki/Tanakh" title="Tanakh">divine books</a> for the guidance of the people in one hand, carried arms in the other. <a href="/wiki/Abraham" title="Abraham">Abraham</a> ... in one hand carried the books of the prophets; in the other, an ax to crush the infidels. <a href="/wiki/Moses" title="Moses">Moses</a>, the interlocutor of God ... in one hand carried the Pentateuch and in the other a staff, which reduced the pharoahs to the dust of ignominy, a staff that was like a dragon swallowing up the traitors.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Muhammad" title="Muhammad">great prophet of Islam</a> in one hand carried the Koran and in the other a sword; the sword for crushing the traitors and the Koran for guidance. For those who could be guided, the Koran was their means of guidance, while as for those who could be guided and were plotters, the sword descended on their heads. ... Islam is a religion of blood for the infidels but a religion of guidance for other people.</li> <li>We have sacrificed much blood and many martyrs. Islam has sacrificed blood and martyrs.</li> <li>We do not fear giving martyrs. ... Whatever we give for Islam is not enough and is too little. Our lives are not worthy. Let those who wish us ill not imagine that our youths are afraid of death or of <a href="/wiki/Martyrdom" title="Martyrdom">martyrdom</a>. Martyrdom is a legacy which we have received from our prophets. Those should fear death who consider the aftermath of death to be obliteration. We, who consider the aftermath of death a life more sublime than this one, what fear have we? The traitors should be afraid. The servants of <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> have no fear. Our army, our gendarmerie, our police, our guards have no fear. Our guards who were [killed] ... have achieved eternal life. ...</li> <li>These people who want freedom, who want our youths to be free, write effusively about the freedom of our youth. What freedom do they want? ... They want the <a href="/wiki/Gambling" title="Gambling">gambling</a> casinos to remain freely open, they want <a href="/wiki/Heroin" title="Heroin">heroin</a> addicts to be free, opium addicts to be free. They want the seas to be free everywhere for the youth [i.e. mixed bathing]. <ul><li>Excerpted from "Speech at Feyziyeh Theological School" (August 24, 1979). English translation in Barry Rubin and Judith Colp Rubin, Anti-American Terrorism and the Middle East (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), pp. 29, 32-36.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>“Our movement <a href="/wiki/Islamic" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic">Islamic</a> before being <a href="/wiki/Iranian" class="mw-redirect" title="Iranian">Iranian</a>”<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Little_Green_Book_(1985)"><span id="The_Little_Green_Book_.281985.29"></span>The Little Green Book (1985)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ruhollah_Khomeini&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: The Little Green Book (1985)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd>from "The Little Green Book: Selected Fatawah And Sayings of The Ayatollah Mosavi Khomeini" translated into English by Harold Salemson and published in 1985</dd> <dd>book is also called "Tahrirolvasyleh"</dd></dl> <ul><li>To look upon the face and hair of a girl who has not reached puberty, if it is done without intention of enjoyment thereof, and if one is not afraid of succumbing to temptation, may be tolerated. It is however recommended that one not look upon her belly or thighs, which must remain covered. <ul><li>page 57</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Theology_and_Mysticism">Theology and Mysticism</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ruhollah_Khomeini&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Theology and Mysticism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ayatollah_Mofatteh_%26_Ayatollah_Khomeini_01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Ayatollah_Mofatteh_%26_Ayatollah_Khomeini_01.jpg/220px-Ayatollah_Mofatteh_%26_Ayatollah_Khomeini_01.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="162" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Ayatollah_Mofatteh_%26_Ayatollah_Khomeini_01.jpg/330px-Ayatollah_Mofatteh_%26_Ayatollah_Khomeini_01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Ayatollah_Mofatteh_%26_Ayatollah_Khomeini_01.jpg/440px-Ayatollah_Mofatteh_%26_Ayatollah_Khomeini_01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="815" data-file-height="601" /></a><figcaption>The prophetic mission created a scientific-gnostic change in the world that converted the insipid Greek philosophies, which were formulated with all their past and present worth by the Greeks themselves into an objective mysticism and a veritable intuitive perception for masters of divine insight.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Only <a href="/wiki/Allah" title="Allah">God</a>, the Exalted, is the <a href="/wiki/Light" title="Light">light</a>; everything else is <a href="/wiki/Darkness" title="Darkness">darkness</a>.</li> <li>The essential purpose of revelation is to develop divine knowledge in man.</li> <li>Most of the wailings of the <i>awliya</i> [pious believers] is caused by the pain of separation and detachment from the Beloved and His Generosity. <ul><li><i>Pithy Aphorisms: Wise Saying and Counsels</i>, Edited by Mansoor Limba, Tehran: The Institute for Compilation and Publication of Imam Khomeini’s Works -- International Affairs Department, p. 3.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>That which admits man to God's Threshold is his separation from all that is not of God—a thing which is not attainable by all.</li> <li>Evidently, adoration, worship and sanctification of God require knowledge and awareness of His Most Exalted Station as well as the Attributes of His Glory and Grandeur; without due knowledge and awareness, these cannot be fulfilled.</li> <li>The essence of praise accrues to none but God; your praise of a rose or an apple is [in essence] praise of God.</li> <li>[If] you have divine motives, material benefits will follow suit but they are no longer material; they have become divine.</li> <li>You were invigorated by mindfulness of God, migration from oneself to God—which is the greatest migration—migration from ego to the truth, and from this world to the unseen world. <ul><li><i>Pithy Aphorisms: Wise Saying and Counsels</i>, Edited by Mansoor Limba, Tehran: The Institute for Compilation and Publication of Imam Khomeini’s Works -- International Affairs Department, p. 4.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Negligence of God increases the indignation of the heart, gives the <a href="/wiki/Ego" title="Ego">ego</a> and <a href="/wiki/Satan" title="Satan">Satan</a> domination over man, and increases corruption in him daily. [On the contrary,] mindfulness and remembrance of God bestows serenity on the heart, burnishes it and makes it a mirror reflecting the Beloved. It purges and purifies the soul and saves man from the bondage of <a href="/wiki/Ego" title="Ego">ego</a>. <ul><li><i>Pithy Aphorisms: Wise Saying and Counsels</i>, Edited by Mansoor Limba, Tehran: The Institute for Compilation and Publication of Imam Khomeini’s Works -- International Affairs Department, p. 5.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Apprise your veiled and drooping hearts that the universe, from the highest heavens [ala al-illiyyin] to the lowest in hell [asfal as-safilin], is a manifestation of God, the Blessed and Exalted, and all are in the threshold of His Power. <ul><li><i>Pithy Aphorisms: Wise Saying and Counsels</i>, Edited by Mansoor Limba, Tehran: The Institute for Compilation and Publication of Imam Khomeini’s Works -- International Affairs Department, p. 6.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>O nation, wake up! O government, wake up! Everybody wake up! You are all in the Presence of God. Tomorrow (in the next world), you will be called to account. Do not ignore the blood of our martyrs, and do not quarrel over position or status.</li> <li>That which eases calamities is the fact that all are departing mortals. All of us will pass away; so, it is better to be sacrificed in His path. <ul><li><i>Pithy Aphorisms: Wise Saying and Counsels</i>, Edited by Mansoor Limba, Tehran: The Institute for Compilation and Publication of Imam Khomeini’s Works -- International Affairs Department. p. 7.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The prophetic mission created a scientific-gnostic change in the world that converted the insipid <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greece" title="Ancient Greece">Greek</a> <a href="/wiki/Philosophy" title="Philosophy">philosophies</a>, which were formulated with all their past and present worth by the <a href="/wiki/Greeks" title="Greeks">Greeks</a> themselves into an objective mysticism and a veritable intuitive perception for masters of divine insight. <ul><li><i>Pithy Aphorisms: Wise Saying and Counsels</i>, Edited by Mansoor Limba, Tehran: The Institute for Compilation and Publication of Imam Khomeini’s Works -- International Affairs Department. p. 8.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Interfaith">Interfaith</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ruhollah_Khomeini&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Interfaith"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>(Addressed to religious leaders of Christianity:) To please the Lord and carry out the decrees of the <a href="/wiki/Christ" title="Christ">Holy Christ</a>, let the bells in your <a href="/wiki/Church" title="Church">churches</a> peal out in favor of the oppressed Iranians, and in condemnation of the oppressors. <ul><li><i>Pithy Aphorisms: Wise Saying and Counsels</i>, Edited by Mansoor Limba, Tehran: The Institute for Compilation and Publication of Imam Khomeini’s Works -- International Affairs Department. p. 9.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Islamic_government">Islamic government</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ruhollah_Khomeini&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Islamic government"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ayatollah_Khomeini_young.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Ayatollah_Khomeini_young.jpg/220px-Ayatollah_Khomeini_young.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="278" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/Ayatollah_Khomeini_young.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="248" data-file-height="313" /></a><figcaption>Islam proclaims monarchy and hereditary succession wrong and invalid. When Islam first appeared in Iran, the Byzantine Empire, Egypt, and the Yemen, the entire institution of monarchy was abolished.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Only <a href="/wiki/One-party_state" title="One-party state">one party</a>—and that is party of Allah[Hezbollah], party of the underprivileged. <ul><li>Ruhollah Khomeini, Sahifeh Imam Khomeini Vol 9 Page 282<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></li> <li>Support Guardianship of the Jurist and no harm will come to your country.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <ul><li>The Sunna and path of the <a href="/wiki/Muhammad" title="Muhammad">Prophet</a> constitute a proof of the necessity for establishing <a href="/wiki/Government" title="Government">government</a>. First, he himself established a government, as history testifies. He engaged in the implementation of laws, the establishment of the ordinances of Islam, and the administration of the <a href="/wiki/Society" title="Society">society</a>. He sent out governors to different regions; both sat in judgment himself and appointed <a href="/wiki/Judges" title="Judges">judges</a>; dispatched <a href="/wiki/Diplomacy" title="Diplomacy">emissaries to foreign states</a>, tribal chieftains, and <a href="/wiki/King" title="King">kings</a>; concluded treaties and pacts; and took command in battle. In short, he fulfilled all the functions of government. Second, he designated a ruler to succeed him, in accordance with divine command. If God Almighty, through the Prophet, designated a man who was to rule over Muslim society after him, this is in itself an indication that government remains a necessity after the departure of the Prophet from this world. Again, since the Most Noble Messenger promulgated the divine command through his act of appointing a successor, he also implicitly stated the necessity for establishing a government. <ul><li><i>Islam and Revolution, Writings and Declarations of Imam Khomeini,</i> Translated and Annotated by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Hamid_Algar&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hamid Algar (page does not exist)">Hamid Algar</a>, Mizan Press, Berkley, pp. 41.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Islam proclaims <a href="/wiki/Monarchy" title="Monarchy">monarchy</a> and hereditary succession wrong and invalid. When Islam first appeared in Iran, the <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine Empire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Yemen" title="Yemen">Yemen</a>, the entire institution of <a href="/wiki/Monarchy" title="Monarchy">monarchy</a> was abolished. In the blessed letters that the Most Noble Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) wrote to the Byzantine Emperor Heraclius and the Shahanshah of Iran, he called upon them to abandon the monarchical and imperial form of government, to cease compelling the servants of God to worship them with absolute obedience, and to permit men to worship God, Who has no partner and is the True Monarch. Monarchy and hereditary succession represent the same sinister, evil system of government that prompted the Lord of the Martyrs (<a href="/wiki/Husayn_ibn_Ali" title="Husayn ibn Ali">Hussain bin Ali</a> -- peace be upon him) to rise up in revolt and seek martyrdom in an effort to prevent its establishment. He revolted in repudiation of the hereditary succession of Yazid, to refuse it his recognition. <ul><li><i>Islam and Revolution, Writings and Declarations of Imam Khomeini,</i> Translated and Annotated by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Hamid_Algar&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hamid Algar (page does not exist)">Hamid Algar</a>, Mizan Press, Berkley, p. 31.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Islam_and_the_imperialists">Islam and the imperialists</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ruhollah_Khomeini&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Islam and the imperialists"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Chomeini97.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Chomeini97.jpg/220px-Chomeini97.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="281" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Chomeini97.jpg/330px-Chomeini97.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Chomeini97.jpg/440px-Chomeini97.jpg 2x" data-file-width="993" data-file-height="1267" /></a><figcaption> <a href="/wiki/Personal" class="mw-redirect" title="Personal">Personal</a> <a href="/wiki/Desire" title="Desire">desire</a>, age, and my <a href="/wiki/Health" title="Health">health</a> do not allow me to personally have a role in running the <a href="/wiki/Country" class="mw-disambig" title="Country">country</a> after the fall of the current <a href="/wiki/System" title="System">system</a>.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Iran.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/220px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="126" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/330px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/440px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="630" data-file-height="360" /></a><figcaption>In <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Future" title="Future">future</a> Islamic system everyone can express their <a href="/wiki/Opinion" title="Opinion">opinion</a>, and the Islamic <a href="/wiki/Government" title="Government">government</a> will respond to <a href="/wiki/Logic" title="Logic">logic</a> with logic.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a> is the religion of militant individuals who are committed to <a href="/wiki/Truth" title="Truth">truth</a> and <a href="/wiki/Justice" title="Justice">justice</a>. It is the religion of those who desire <a href="/wiki/Freedom" title="Freedom">freedom</a> and <a href="/wiki/Independence" title="Independence">independence</a>. It is the school of those who struggle against <a href="/wiki/Imperialism" title="Imperialism">imperialism</a>. But the servants of imperialism have presented Islam in a totally different light. They have created in men’s minds a false notion of Islam. The defective version of Islam, which they have presented in the religious teaching institution, is intended to deprive Islam of its vital, revolutionary aspect and to prevent Muslims from arousing themselves in order to gain their freedom, fulfill the ordinances of Islam, and create a government that will secure their happiness and allow them to live lives worthy of human beings. <ul><li><i>Islam and Revolution, Writings and Declarations of Imam Khomeini,</i> Translated and Annotated by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Hamid_Algar&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hamid Algar (page does not exist)">Hamid Algar</a>, Mizan Press, Berkley, pp. 28.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>... the <a href="/wiki/Imperialism" title="Imperialism">imperialists</a> really have no <a href="/wiki/Religion" title="Religion">religious belief</a>, <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christian</a> or <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islamic</a>. Rather, throughout this long historical period, and going back to the Crusades, they felt that the major obstacle in the path of their materialistic ambitions and the chief threat to their political power was nothing but Islam and its ordinances, and the belief of the people in Islam. They therefore plotted and campaigned against Islam by various means. <ul><li><i>Islam and Revolution, Writings and Declarations of Imam Khomeini,</i> Translated and Annotated by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Hamid_Algar&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hamid Algar (page does not exist)">Hamid Algar</a>, Mizan Press, Berkley, pp. 27-28.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Their plan is to keep us backward, to keep us in our present miserable state so they can exploit our riches, our underground <a href="/wiki/Wealth" title="Wealth">wealth</a>, our lands, and our human resources. They want us to remain afflicted and wretched, and our poor to be trapped in their misery. Instead of surrendering to the injunctions of Islam, which provide a solution for the problem of poverty, they and their agents wish to go on living in huge palaces and enjoying lives of abominable luxury. <ul><li><i>Islam and Revolution, Writings and Declarations of Imam Khomeini,</i> Translated and Annotated by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Hamid_Algar&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hamid Algar (page does not exist)">Hamid Algar</a>, Mizan Press, Berkley, p. 33.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If you pay no attention to the policies of the imperialists, and consider Islam to be simply the few topics you are always studying and never go beyond them, then the imperialists will leave you alone. Pray as much as you like; it is your <a href="/wiki/Oil" title="Oil">oil</a> they are after— why should they worry about your prayers? They are after our minerals, and want to turn our country into a market for their goods. That is the reason the puppet governments they have installed prevent us from industrializing, and instead, establish only <a href="/wiki/Manufacturing" title="Manufacturing">assembly plants</a> and <a href="/wiki/Industry" title="Industry">industry</a> that is dependent on the outside world. <ul><li><i>Islam and Revolution, Writings and Declarations of Imam Khomeini,</i> Translated and Annotated by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Hamid_Algar&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hamid Algar (page does not exist)">Hamid Algar</a>, Mizan Press, Berkley, pp. 39.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Social_justice">Social justice</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ruhollah_Khomeini&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Social justice"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Through the political agents they have placed in power over the people, the imperialists have also imposed on us an unjust economic order, and thereby divided our people into two groups: oppressors and oppressed. Hundreds of millions of <a href="/wiki/Muslim" title="Muslim">Muslims</a> are hungry and deprived of all form of <a href="/wiki/Health_care" title="Health care">health care</a> and <a href="/wiki/Education" title="Education">education</a>, while <a href="/wiki/Minority_group" title="Minority group">minorities</a> comprised of the wealthy and powerful live a life of <a href="/wiki/Indulgence" title="Indulgence">indulgence</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licentiousness" class="extiw" title="w:Licentiousness">licentiousness</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Corruption" title="Corruption">corruption</a>. The hungry and deprived have constantly struggled to free themselves from the oppression of their plundering overlords, and their struggle continues to this day. But their way is blocked by the ruling minorities and the oppressive governmental structures they head. It is our duty to save the oppressed and deprived... The scholars of Islam have a duty to struggle against all attempts by the oppressors to establish a <a href="/wiki/Monopoly" title="Monopoly">monopoly</a> over the sources of <a href="/wiki/Wealth" title="Wealth">wealth</a> or to make illicit use of them. They must not allow the masses to remain hungry and deprived while plundering oppressors usurp the sources of wealth and live in opulence. The <a href="/wiki/Ali" title="Ali">Commander of the Faithful</a> (upon whom be peace) says: “I have accepted the task of government because God, Exalted and Almighty, has exacted from the scholars of Islam a pledge not to sit silent and idle in the face of the gluttony and plundering of the oppressors, on the one hand, and the hunger and deprivation of the oppressed, on the other.” <ul><li><i>Islam and Revolution, Writings and Declarations of Imam Khomeini,</i> Translated and Annotated by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Hamid_Algar&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hamid Algar (page does not exist)">Hamid Algar</a>, Mizan Press, Berkley, pp. 49-50.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>At the start of their mission, the prophets first confronted the upper class; Hadrat <a href="/wiki/Moses" title="Moses">Moses</a>, confronted the Pharaoh. The upper class enjoys the priority of being confronted and guided first. <ul><li>Pithy Aphorisms: Wise Saying and Counsels, Edited by Mansoor Limba, Tehra: The Institute for Compilation and Publication of Imam Khomeini’s Works -- International Affairs Department. p. 9.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Islamic_law">Islamic law</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ruhollah_Khomeini&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Islamic law"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The agents of imperialism sometimes write ... that the legal provisions of Islam are too harsh ... because they originated with the <a href="/wiki/Arabs" title="Arabs">Arabs</a>, so that the “harshness” of the Arabs is reflected in the “harshness” of <a href="/wiki/Sharia" title="Sharia">Islamic law</a>! I am amazed at the way these people think. They kill people for possessing ten grams of <a href="/wiki/Heroin" title="Heroin">heroin</a> and say, “That is the law”. Inhuman laws like this are concocted in the name of a campaign against <a href="/wiki/Corruption" title="Corruption">corruption</a>, and they are not to be regarded as harsh. (I am not saying it is permissible to sell heroin, but this is not the appropriate punishment. The sale of heroin must indeed be prohibited, but the punishment must be in proportion to the crime.) When Islam, however, stipulates that the drinker of <a href="/wiki/Alcoholic_beverages" title="Alcoholic beverages">alcohol</a> should receive eighty lashes, they consider it “too harsh.”... Many forms of corruption that have appeared in society derive from alcohol. The collisions that take place on our roads, and the <a href="/wiki/Homicide" title="Homicide">murders</a> is said to derive from <a href="/wiki/Alcoholism" title="Alcoholism">addiction to alcohol</a>. But still, some say, it is quite unobjectionable for someone to drink alcohol (after all, they do it in the West); so let alcohol be bought and sold freely. But when Islam wishes to prevent the consumption of alcohol— one of the major evils— stipulating that the drinker should receive eighty lashes, or sexual vice, decreeing that the fornicator be given one hundred lashes (and the married man or woman be stoned), then they start wailing and lamenting: “What a harsh law that is, reflecting the harshness of the Arabs!” They are not aware that these penal provisions of Islam are intended to keep great nations from being destroyed by corruption. <ul><li><i>Islam and Revolution, Writings and Declarations of Imam Khomeini,</i> Translated and Annotated by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Hamid_Algar&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hamid Algar (page does not exist)">Hamid Algar</a>, Mizan Press, Berkley, pp 33.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Human_sexual_activity" title="Human sexual activity">Sexual</a> <a href="/wiki/Vices" title="Vices">vice</a> has now reached such proportions that it is destroying entire <a href="/wiki/Generation" title="Generation">generations</a>, corrupting our <a href="/wiki/Youth" title="Youth">youth</a>, and causing them to neglect all forms of work. They are all rushing to enjoy the various forms of vice that have become so freely available and so enthusiastically promoted. Why should it be regarded as harsh if Islam stipulates that an offender should be publicly flogged in order to protect the younger generation from <a href="/wiki/Corruption" title="Corruption">corruption</a>? <ul><li><i>Islam and Revolution, Writings and Declarations of Imam Khomeini,</i> Translated and Annotated by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Hamid_Algar&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hamid Algar (page does not exist)">Hamid Algar</a>, Mizan Press, Berkley, pp 33-34.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If the <a href="/wiki/Ulema" title="Ulema">religious leaders</a> have influence, they will not permit girls and boys to wrestle together, as recently happened in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiraz" class="extiw" title="w:Shiraz">Shiraz</a>. <ul><li>Denouncing the situation that <a href="/wiki/Sex_segregation_in_Islam" class="mw-redirect" title="Sex segregation in Islam">sex segregation</a> was not being imposed by the government. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.irib.ir/worldservice/imam/speech/">Speech number sixteen</a>. Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, World Service (<span class="mw-formatted-date" title="1964-10-26">October 26, 1964</span>).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Islam_and_civilization">Islam and civilization</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ruhollah_Khomeini&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Islam and civilization"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>As the imperialist countries attained a high degree of wealth and affluence— the result both of scientific and technical progress and of their plunder of the nations of <a href="/wiki/Asia" title="Asia">Asia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Africa" title="Africa">Africa</a>— these individuals lost all self-confidence and imagined that the only way to achieve technical progress was to abandon their own <a href="/wiki/Law" title="Law">laws</a> and <a href="/wiki/Belief" title="Belief">beliefs</a>. When the <a href="/wiki/Apollo_11" title="Apollo 11">moon landings</a> took place, for instance, they concluded that Muslims should jettison their laws! But what is the connection between going to the <a href="/wiki/Moon" title="Moon">moon</a> and the laws of Islam? Do they not see that countries having opposing laws and <a href="/wiki/Social_system" title="Social system">social systems</a> compete with each other in technical and scientific progress and the <a href="/wiki/Space_exploration" title="Space exploration">conquest of space</a>? Let them go all the way to <a href="/wiki/Mars" title="Mars">Mars</a> or beyond the <a href="/wiki/Milky_Way" title="Milky Way">Milky Way</a>; they will still be deprived of true <a href="/wiki/Happiness" title="Happiness">happiness</a>, moral virtue, and spiritual advancement and be unable to solve their own social problems. For the solution of social problems and the relief of human <a href="/wiki/Misery" title="Misery">misery</a> require foundations in <a href="/wiki/Faith" title="Faith">faith</a> and <a href="/wiki/Morality" title="Morality">morals</a>; merely acquiring material <a href="/wiki/Power" title="Power">power</a> and wealth, conquering <a href="/wiki/Nature" title="Nature">nature</a> and space, have no effect in this regard. They must be supplemented by, and balanced with, the faith, the conviction, and the morality of Islam in order truly to serve <a href="/wiki/Humanity" title="Humanity">humanity</a> instead of endangering it. This conviction, this morality, these laws that are needed, we already possess. So as soon as someone goes somewhere or invents something, we should not hurry to abandon our religion and its laws, which regulate the life of man and provide for his well-being in this world and the hereafter. <ul><li><i>Islam and Revolution, Writings and Declarations of Imam Khomeini,</i> Translated and Annotated by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Hamid_Algar&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hamid Algar (page does not exist)">Hamid Algar</a>, Mizan Press, Berkley, pp 36.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Foreign_policy">Foreign policy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ruhollah_Khomeini&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Foreign policy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Give them <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a>, proclaim to the world the program of Islamic government; maybe the <a href="/wiki/King" title="King">kings</a> and <a href="/wiki/President" title="President">presidents</a> of the Muslim countries will understand the truth of what we say and accept it. We would not want to take anything away from them; we will leave anyone in his place who faithfully follows Islam. <ul><li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahrir_al-Vasileh" class="extiw" title="w:Tahrir al-Vasileh">Tahrir al-Vasileh</a></i>, 1970. <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://politicalquotes.org/node/54102">http://politicalquotes.org/node/54102</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>... in our domestic and foreign policy, ... we have set as our goal the world-wide spread of the influence of <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a> ... We wish to cause the corrupt roots of <a href="/wiki/Zionism" title="Zionism">Zionism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Capitalism" title="Capitalism">capitalism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Communism" title="Communism">Communism</a> to wither throughout the world. We wish, as does God almighty, to destroy the systems which are based on these three foundations, and to promote the Islamic order of the Prophet ... <ul><li><a class="external autonumber" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_thought_and_legacy_of_Ruhollah_Khomeini#cite_ref-111">[1]</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>if you hope at this juncture to cut the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordian_knot" class="extiw" title="w:Gordian knot">Gordian knots</a> of <a href="/wiki/Socialism" title="Socialism">socialism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Communism" title="Communism">communism</a> by appealing to the center of Western <a href="/wiki/Capitalism" title="Capitalism">capitalism</a>, you will, far from remedying any of the ills of your <a href="/wiki/Society" title="Society">society</a>, commit a mistake which those to come will have to erase. For if <a href="/wiki/Marxism" title="Marxism">Marxism</a> has come to a deadlock in its social and economic policies, capitalism has also bogged down. <ul><li>Letter to Russian Premier Gorbachev, January 1989. <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://politicalquotes.org/node/68478">http://politicalquotes.org/node/68478</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The people will not rest until the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pahlavi_Dynasty" class="extiw" title="w:Pahlavi Dynasty">Pahlavi rule</a> has been swept away and all traces of tyranny have <a href="/wiki/Disappeared" class="mw-redirect" title="Disappeared">disappeared</a>. As long as the Shah's satanic power prevails, not a single true representative of the people can possibly be elected. <ul><li>Response to Shah <a href="/wiki/Mohammad_Reza_Pahlavi" title="Mohammad Reza Pahlavi">Mohammad Reza Pahlavi</a>'s announcement of elections (August 1978); quoted in "The Shah's Divided Land" (18 September 1978) <i>Time</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>With people's revolutionary rage, the king will be ousted and a democratic state, Islamic Republic, will be established. <ul><li>"Imam's Sahife" vol. 4 p. 244 (1 November 1978).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Women" title="Women">Women</a> are free in the Islamic Republic in the selection of their activities and their future and their clothing. <ul><li>Interview for <i>The Guardian</i> in Paris (6 November 1978)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In the Islamic Republic the rights of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_minorities" class="extiw" title="w:Religious minorities">religious minorities</a> are respectfully regarded. <ul><li>Interview for Austrian television, Paris, (6 November 1978), as quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.iranian.com/Opinion/2003/August/Khomeini/">"Democracy? I meant theocracy — The most truthful individual in recent history" by Dr. Jalal Matini,and Farhad Mafie, in <i>The Iranian</i> (5 August 2003)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Personal desire, age, and my health do not allow me to personally have a role in running the country after the fall of the current system. <ul><li>Associated Press interview in Paris (7 November 1978); repeated on several occasions before Khomeini returned to Iran</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>You young people yourselves are capable of performing anything. Our <a href="/wiki/Invention" title="Invention">inventors</a> can invent in a high level, Our innovators can innovate in a high level, only if they keep self confidence and believe that we can. <ul><li>Addressing an audience of Iranian industry workers and inventors (October 1983); quoted in "Imam's Sahife" vol. 18 p. 189,190.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In Iran's future Islamic system everyone can express their opinion, and the Islamic government will respond to logic with <a href="/wiki/Logic" title="Logic">logic</a>. <ul><li>Speech (9 November 1978), as quoted in <i>The Most Truthful Individual in Recent History" in </i>Iranshenasi<i>, Vol. XIV, No. 4 (Winter 2003), as translated by Farhad Mafie</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In the Islamic government all people have complete freedom to have any kind of opinion. <ul><li>Interview with Human Rights Watch, Paris (10 November 1978)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>After the Shah's departure from Iran, I will not become a president nor accept any other leadership role. Just like before, I limit my activities only to guiding and directing the people. <ul><li><i>Le Monde</i> interview in Paris (9 January 1979)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>From the beginning while we were engaged in these issues, I said in interviews with those who came from abroad, even in Najaf or <a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a> or among my personal words, I have always said that clerics have an occupation which is more important than these executive jobs, and should Islam become victorious, <a href="/wiki/Clergy" title="Clergy">clerics</a> would dedicate themselves to their own occupation. But as we went on with the revolution, we found out that if we tell all clerics to go after their <a href="/wiki/Mosque" title="Mosque">mosques</a>, this country would fall into the throat of <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">America</a> and <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>. We experienced and saw, those who took the lead but were not clerics, even though some of them were religious people, our revolutionary path was not according to their taste, therefore... we temporarily deviate from our original word until this country could be administered by those other than clerics, then clerics will go back to their preach and their own position and they will leave executive matters to others who work for Islam. <ul><li>Imam's Sahife. vol. 16, p. 349,350. (21 June 1982)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Before the revolution I thought there are appropriate individuals who would do the job according to Islam, therefore I repeatedly said that clerics would go after their own job. Then I saw that most of them were inappropriate individuals and I found out that what I said was not true, so I came and clearly announced that I was wrong. <ul><li>Imam's Sahife. vol. 18, p. 241. (11 December 1983)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Ayatollah, would you be so kind as to tell us how you feel about being back in Iran?<br />Nothing. I don't feel anything. (<i>Hichi. Hich ehsasi nadaram</i>) <ul><li>Exchange between American reporter <a href="/wiki/Peter_Jennings" title="Peter Jennings">Peter Jennings</a> and Khomeini (1 February 1979), during Khomeini's return flight to Iran; quoted in Elaine Sciolino (2001) <i>Persian Mirrors</i>. Khomeini's translator did not translate his response, but said only that he had no comment.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>These people are trying to bring back the regime of the late Shah or another regime. I will strike with my fists at the mouths of this government. From now on it is I who will name the government.</li> <li>Variant: I shall kick their teeth in. I am appointing the government. I am appointing the government by the support of this nation! <ul><li>Speech at Behesht Zahra cemetery (1 February 1979), condemning the government of Shapour Bakhtiar</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Don't listen to those who speak of <a href="/wiki/Democracy" title="Democracy">democracy</a>. They all are against Islam. They want to take the nation away from its mission. We will break all the poison pens of those who speak of <a href="/wiki/Nationalism" title="Nationalism">nationalism</a>, democracy, and such things. <ul><li>Remarks to students and educators in Qom (13 March 1979)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Islamic state means a state based on justice and democracy and structured upon Islamic rules and laws. <ul><li>Imam's Sahife, vol. 5, p. 133. (17 December 1978)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In Islam, democracy is included and people are free in Islam, both in expressing their opinions and their actions, until there is no conspiracy and they don't bring up ideas which would deviate Iranian generation. <ul><li>Imam's Sahife, vol. 5, p. 468. (15 January 1979)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If one permits an infidel to continue in his role as a corrupter of the earth, the infidel's moral suffering will be all the worse. If one kills the infidel, and this stops him from perpetrating his misdeeds, his death will be a blessing to him. <ul><li>Speech on the day of Mohammed's birth (1984)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Happy are those who have departed through martyrdom. Unhappy am I that I still survive.… Taking this decision is more deadly than drinking from a poisoned chalice. I submitted myself to Allah's will and took this drink for His satisfaction. <ul><li>Announcement of ceasefire with Iraq (20 July 1988), quoted in <i>The Iran-Iraq War</i> (2002) by Efraim Karsh</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>…the author of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Satanic_Verses" title="The Satanic Verses">The Satanic Verses</a></i> book which is against Islam, <a href="/wiki/Muhammad" title="Muhammad">the Prophet</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Quran" title="Quran">Qu'ran</a>, and all involved in its publication who were aware of its content, are sentenced to death. I call on all zealous <a href="/wiki/Muslim" title="Muslim">Muslims</a> to execute them wherever they find them, so that no one will dare to insult the Islamic sanctions. Whoever is killed on this path will be regarded as a <a href="/wiki/Martyrdom" title="Martyrdom">martyr</a>, God willing. <ul><li><i>Fatwa</i> against <a href="/wiki/Salman_Rushdie" title="Salman Rushdie">Salman Rushdie</a> (14 February 1989)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>This <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">regime</a> occupying <a href="/wiki/Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a> must vanish from the page of time. <ul><li><cite style="font-style:normal" class="news"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/11/weekinreview/11bronner.html?ex=1307678400&en=efa2bd266224e880&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss">"Just How Far Did They Go, Those Words Against Israel?"</a>. The New York Times. June 11, 2006<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved on 2007-08-13</span>.</cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Just+How+Far+Did+They+Go%2C+Those+Words+Against+Israel%3F&rft.atitle=&rft.date=June+11%2C+2006&rft.pub=The+New+York+Times&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2006%2F06%2F11%2Fweekinreview%2F11bronner.html%3Fex%3D1307678400%26en%3Defa2bd266224e880%26ei%3D5088%26partner%3Drssnyt%26emc%3Drss&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Ruhollah_Khomeini"><span style="display: none;"> </span></span></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>When anyone studies a little or pays a little attention to the rules of Islamic government, Islamic politics, Islamic society and Islamic economy he will realize that Islam is a very political religion. Anyone who will say that religion is separate from politics is a fool; he does not know Islam or politics. <ul><li><i>Tahrīr al-Wasīla</i> vol. 1</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Attributed">Attributed</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ruhollah_Khomeini&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Attributed"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Islam is politics or it is nothing. <ul><li><cite style="font-style:normal" class="news" id="CITEREFBernard_Lewis">Bernard Lewis (<a href="/wiki/April_28" title="April 28">April 28</a>, <a href="/wiki/1988" class="mw-disambig" title="1988">1988</a>). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1988/jan/21/islamic-revolution/?pagination=false">"Islamic Revolution"</a>. The New York Review of Books<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved on 2011-12-26</span>.</cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Islamic+Revolution&rft.atitle=&rft.aulast=Bernard+Lewis&rft.au=Bernard+Lewis&rft.date=%5B%5BApril+28%5D%5D%2C+%5B%5B1988%5D%5D&rft.pub=The+New+York+Review+of+Books&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nybooks.com%2Farticles%2Farchives%2F1988%2Fjan%2F21%2Fislamic-revolution%2F%3Fpagination%3Dfalse&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Ruhollah_Khomeini"><span style="display: none;"> </span></span></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There is no room for play in Islam … It is deadly serious about everything. <ul><li>Speech in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qom" class="extiw" title="w:Qom">Qum</a>, as quoted in <cite style="font-style:normal" class="news"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,923857,00.html">"Portrait of an Ascetic Despot"</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_(magazine)" class="extiw" title="w:Time (magazine)">Time</a>. <a href="/wiki/January_7" title="January 7">January 7</a>, <a href="/wiki/1980" class="mw-disambig" title="1980">1980</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved on 2007-02-02</span>.</cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Portrait+of+an+Ascetic+Despot&rft.atitle=&rft.date=%5B%5BJanuary+7%5D%5D%2C+%5B%5B1980%5D%5D&rft.pub=%5B%5Bw%3ATime+%28magazine%29%7CTime%5D%5D&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C923857%2C00.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Ruhollah_Khomeini"><span style="display: none;"> </span></span></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>All those against the revolution must disappear and quickly be executed.</li> <li>Variant: All those against the revolution, that insist on their position, must disappear and quickly be executed. <ul><li>Quoted by dissident cleric <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hossein-Ali_Montazeri" class="extiw" title="w:Hossein-Ali Montazeri">Hossein-Ali Montazeri</a>, once in line to be Iran's supreme leader. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.shianews.com/hi/asia/news_id/0000573.php"><i>ShiaNews.com</i> (17 December 2000)</a>. This statement is said to have been made after the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojahedin-e_Khalgh" class="extiw" title="w:Mojahedin-e Khalgh">Mojahedin-e Khalgh</a> militant organization launched an offensive against Iranian troops from bases in Iraq.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In the world there is no democracy better than our democracy. Such a thing has never before been seen. <ul><li>Clive Foss, <i>The Tyrants: 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption</i>, London: Quercus Publishing, 2006, <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1905204965" title="Special:BookSources/1905204965">ISBN 1905204965</a>, p. 195</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Misattributed">Misattributed</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ruhollah_Khomeini&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Misattributed"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>A man can have sexual pleasure from a child as young as a baby. However, he should not penetrate vaginally, but sodomising the child is acceptable. If a man does penetrate and damage the child then, he should be responsible for her subsistence all her life. This girl will not count as one of his four permanent wives and the man will not be eligible to marry the girl’s sister,it is better for a girl to marry in such a time when she would begin menstruation at her husband's house rather than her father's home.<br />Any father marrying his daughter so young will have a permanent place in heaven. <ul><li>attributed in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.ca/books?id=QSk0DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA85">page 85</a> of 2017 book by Doreen Chilia-Jones "Say What?: 670 Quotes That Should Never Have Been Said" <ul><li>although no further source details are presence in the above book, its presence in the fourth (1990) edition of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahrir_al-Wasilah" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Tahrir al-Wasilah">"Tahrirolvasyleh"</a> was alleged since <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050106170121/http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/348">December 2004</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It is not illegal for an adult male to 'thigh' or enjoy a young girl who is still in the age of weaning; meaning to place his penis between her thighs, and to kiss her.</li></ul> <ul><li><ul><li>26 February 2008 in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.ca/books?id=HZmLAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA105">page 105</a>/493 of "Thirty-Three Secrets Arab Men Never Tell American Women" by Cassandra via Xlibris</li> <li>4 January 2009 in page 57, during chapter "The Marriage Contract: The Lock on the Golden Cage" of "Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law" by Nonie Darwish</li> <li>3 June 2011 in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.ca/books?id=Yh24WoksO2MC&pg=PA397">page 397</a>/424 of "Annie and the Man from Cairo" by Elizabeth Jenan-Dickman</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A man can have sex with animals such as sheeps, cows, camels and so on. However, he should kill the animal after he has his orgasm. He should not sell the meat to the people in his own village; however, selling the meat to the next door village should be fine.</li></ul> <p><br /></p><div style="padding: .5em; border: 1px solid black; background-color: #FCFCCC;"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Disputed">Disputed</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ruhollah_Khomeini&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Disputed"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Islam's <i><a href="/wiki/Jihad" title="Jihad">jihad</a></i> is a struggle against idolatry, sexual deviations, plunder, repression, and cruelty. The war waged by [non-Muslim] conquerors, however, aims at promoting lust and animal pleasures. They care not if whole countries are wiped out and many families left homeless. But those who study <i>jihad</i> will understand why Islam wants to conquer the whole world. All the countries conquered by Islam or to be conquered in the future will be marked for everlasting salvation. For they shall live under [God's law]. <ul><li>As quoted in <i>Anti-American Terrorism and the Middle East</i> (2002) by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Rubin" class="extiw" title="w:Barry Rubin">Barry Rubin</a> and Judith Colp Rubin, pp. 29, 32-36</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We do not worship Iran, we worship Allah. For patriotism is another name for paganism. I say let this land [Iran] burn. I say let this land go up in smoke, provided Islam emerges triumphant in the rest of the world. <ul><li>As quoted in <i>Nest of Spies : America's Journey to Disaster in Iran</i> (1989) by Amir Taheri, p. 269. Disputed by historian Shaul Bakhash.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a> makes it incumbent on all adult males, provided they are not disabled or incapacitated, to prepare themselves for the conquest of [other] countries so that the writ of Islam is obeyed in every country in the world. . . . But those who study Islamic Holy War will understand why Islam wants to conquer the whole world. . . . Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war. Those [who say this] are witless. Islam says: Kill all the unbelievers just as they would kill you all! Does this mean that Muslims should sit back until they are devoured by [the unbelievers]? Islam says: Kill them [the non-Muslims], put them to the sword and scatter [their armies]. Does this mean sitting back until [non-Muslims] overcome us? Islam says: Kill in the service of Allah those who may want to kill you! Does this mean that we should surrender [to the enemy]? Islam says: Whatever good there is exists thanks to the sword and in the shadow of the sword! People cannot be made obedient except with the sword! The sword is the key to Paradise, which can be opened only for the Holy Warriors! There are hundreds of other [Qur'anic] psalms and Hadiths [sayings of the Prophet] urging Muslims to value war and to fight. Does all this mean that Islam is a religion that prevents men from waging war? I spit upon those foolish souls who make such a claim. <ul><li>As quoted in <i>Holy Terror: Inside the World of Islamic Terrorism</i> (1987) by Amir Taheri, pp. 241-3.</li></ul></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Quotes_about_Khomeini">Quotes about Khomeini</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ruhollah_Khomeini&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Quotes about Khomeini"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><small><b>In alphabetically order by by author or source.</b></small> </p> <ul><li>"Every aspect of life was better then," my father loves to say, "everyone was happier." When he comes to visit Iran he blames every imperfection personally on Khomeini. The teller at the bank is rude? Khomeini. The metro is late? Khomeini. The internet is slow? Khomeini. When he was growing up, people were nicer, food tasted better, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azadi_Tower" class="extiw" title="w:Azadi Tower">Azadi Tower</a> looked bigger. <ul><li>Anonymous, "Why Iranians are lapping up Shah memorabilia", <i>The Guardian</i> (17 June, 2015)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In practice, opposition by the new Iranian regime to the Americans did not necessarily extend to support for the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>. Two days after the Soviet invasion of <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a>, the Soviet envoy in Iran promised Ayatollah Khomeini, the leader of the <a href="/wiki/Iranian_Revolution" title="Iranian Revolution">Islamic Revolution</a> and <a href="/wiki/Guardianship_of_the_Islamic_Jurist" title="Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist">Guardian of the Islamic Republic</a>, assistance in any conflict with the USA; only to be told that there could be no mutual understanding between a <a href="/wiki/Muslim_world" title="Muslim world">Muslim nation</a> and a <a href="/wiki/Dhimmi" title="Dhimmi">non-Muslim</a> government. Nevertheless, as a result of <a href="/wiki/Foreign_policy_of_the_United_States" title="Foreign policy of the United States">American backing</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Mohammad_Reza_Pahlavi" title="Mohammad Reza Pahlavi">Shah</a> and for <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a> (with whom the Shah had co-operated), and its identification with <a href="/wiki/Liberalism" title="Liberalism">liberalism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Consumerism" title="Consumerism">consumerism</a>, Khomeini saw America as ‘the <a href="/wiki/Great_Satan" title="Great Satan">Great Satan</a>’. He instigated the seizure of the American embassy in Tehran by student radicals on 4 November 1979, an act that created a <a href="/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis" title="Iran hostage crisis">hostage crisis</a> lasting until 20 January 1981. This crisis, and the failed American attempt to rescue the hostages in April 1980, discredited <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Carter" title="Jimmy Carter">Carter</a> and helped Khomeini sustain a highly-charged atmosphere in Iran. It was clear that America’s loss of a strategic partner had altered the <a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a> even if Iran had not joined the Soviet Union, which Khomeini described as ‘the other Great Satan’. Thus, there was no equivalent for the Soviet Union to the now-closer relations between the USA and both <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a> and <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jeremy_Black_(historian)" title="Jeremy Black (historian)">Jeremy Black</a>, <i>The Cold War: A Military History</i> (2015)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The freedom-lovers of the world mourn the sad demise of Imam Khomeini. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernesto_Cardenal" class="extiw" title="w:Ernesto Cardenal">Ernesto Cardenal</a>, Nicaraguan combatant, scholar, poet, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_theology" class="extiw" title="w:Liberation theology">liberation theologian</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It's almost impossible to deal with a crazy man, except that he does have religious beliefs, and the world of <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a> will be damaged if a fanatic like him should commit murder in the name of religion against 60 innocent people. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Carter" title="Jimmy Carter">Jimmy Carter</a> in his Diary (6 November 1979) "Keeping Faith"</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Most important in determining the precise ideological direction of the antimonarchal revolution was the fact that the movement’s primary leader was a <a href="/wiki/Islamic_fundamentalism" title="Islamic fundamentalism">fundamentalist</a>, Ayatollah Khomeini. Khomeini’s adamant refusal to compromise with <a href="/wiki/Mohammad_Reza_Pahlavi" title="Mohammad Reza Pahlavi">the shah</a>, despite the monarch’s massive military and economic power, appealed to the Iranian Shia faithful, schooled in the legendary <a href="/wiki/Martyrdom" title="Martyrdom">martyrdom</a> of <a href="/wiki/Husayn_ibn_Ali" title="Husayn ibn Ali">Imam Hussein</a>. Khomeini rewarded their <a href="/wiki/Loyalty" title="Loyalty">loyalty</a> by developing a successful “<a href="/wiki/Technology" title="Technology">technology</a> of <a href="/wiki/Revolution" title="Revolution">revolution</a>” tailored to the <a href="/wiki/Culture" title="Culture">culture</a> and <a href="/wiki/Psychology" title="Psychology">psychology</a> of Shia Iran. The ayatollah instructed the faithful to use the forty-day-interval mourning processions for the martyrs of previous demonstrations and those religious holidays commemorating sacrifice or heroic deeds as opportunities for new and ever larger protests. He called on his followers to offer themselves in martyrdom before the shah’s soldiers, knowing the shared religious significance of resulting deaths would gradually demoralize the armed forces and ultimately destroy the coercive capacity of the monarchal regime. When Khomeini’s tactics worked, many Iranians concluded that to defeat the shah’s worldly might, the ayatollah must indeed be endowed with divine powers. Having witnessed or even participated in this fantastic achievement, many of the faithful were thereafter much inclined to seek out Khomeini’s point of view on important post-revolutionary matters and follow his advice. Consequently, when conflicts developed among former revolutionary allies, Khomeini’s advocacy of a political system in which both parties and candidates had to be approved by clerical leaders and in which final authority rested in the hands of the clergy ensured the defeat of alternative revolutionary elites. <ul><li>James DeFronzo, <i>Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements</i> (2018), pp. 288-289</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Ayatollah Khomeini was a learned <a href="/wiki/Theologians" title="Theologians">theologian</a> who believed that only a wise <a href="/wiki/Guardianship_of_the_Islamic_Jurist" title="Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist">Islamic Jurist</a> could bring justice to a deeply divided Iran. He opposed foreign influence and became a bitter critic of the reigning monarch, Reza Shah, whom his followers overturned in 1979. In power, Khomeini replaced a <a href="/wiki/Dictatorship" title="Dictatorship">dictatorship</a> disguised as a <a href="/wiki/Monarchy" title="Monarchy">monarchy</a> with one lurking behind the facade of <a href="/wiki/Republic" title="Republic">republican government</a>. He established a unique regime based on Islam that long survived him. <ul><li>Clive Foss, <i>The Tyrants: 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption</i>, London: Quercus Publishing, 2006, <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1905204965" title="Special:BookSources/1905204965">ISBN 1905204965</a>, p. 196</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There is an irony lodged deep in the heart of the revolution that turned Iran from a <a href="/wiki/Persian_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Persian people">Persian</a> <a href="/wiki/Monarchy" title="Monarchy">kingdom</a> into an <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islamic</a> <a href="/wiki/Theocracy" title="Theocracy">theocracy</a>, a revolution cheered and organized by <a href="/wiki/Secularism" title="Secularism">secular</a> <a href="/wiki/Left-wing_politics" title="Left-wing politics">leftists</a> and <a href="/wiki/Liberalism_and_progressivism_within_Islam" title="Liberalism and progressivism within Islam">Islamist modernists</a>. The irony is that the Iran of the <a href="/wiki/Islamic_fundamentalism" title="Islamic fundamentalism">fundamentalist</a> ayatollahs owes its ultimate birth pang to cities of <a href="/wiki/Sin" title="Sin">sin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Freedom" title="Freedom">freedom</a>: <a href="/wiki/Beirut" class="mw-redirect" title="Beirut">Beirut</a>, capital of <a href="/wiki/Arabia" title="Arabia">Arabic</a> modernity, once known as the <a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Middle_East" title="Middle East">Middle East</a>; and Paris, birthplace of the <a href="/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment" title="Age of Enlightenment">Age of Enlightenment</a>. If not for the permissive freedoms in both, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini—a patient man with a cunning mind—might have died forgotten in a two-story mudbrick house down a narrow cul-de-sac in the holy city of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Najaf" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Najaf">Najaf</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a>. The Iranian cleric had agitated against the shah of Iran for over a decade and spent time in <a href="/wiki/Prison" title="Prison">prison</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehran" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Tehran">Tehran</a>. He was sent into exile and arrived in Najaf in 1965, where he languished in anonymity for thirteen years, popular among his circle of disciples but shunned by most of the Iraqi Shia clergy. In Najaf, clerics stayed out of politics and disapproved of the firebrand ayatollah who thought he had a special relationship with God. Outside the cities that busied themselves with <a href="/wiki/Theology" title="Theology">theology</a>, there were those who saw in Khomeini a useful political tool, someone who could rouse crowds in the battle against oppression. Different people with different dreams, from Tehran to <a href="/wiki/Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a>, from Paris to Beirut, looked to Khomeini and saw a man who could serve their agenda, not realizing they were serving his. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Ghattas" class="extiw" title="w:Kim Ghattas">Kim Ghattas</a>, <i>Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East</i> (2020)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>You think that Mr Khomeini, [an] uneducated person … could have planned all this? Masterminded all this, set up all the organization? I know that one man alone could not have done it … I know that a tremendous amount of money was spent … I know that top experts in propaganda were used to show us like tyrants and monsters, and the other side as democratic liberal revolutionaries who want to save the country. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Muhammad_Reza_Pahlavi" class="mw-redirect" title="Muhammad Reza Pahlavi">Muhammad Reza Pahlavi</a>, Shah of Iran</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>One should express his viewpoint regarding what he performed in his country and in a vast part of the world with great respect and deep thought. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II" title="Pope John Paul II">Pope John Paul II</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The second liberal gripe against <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Carter" title="Jimmy Carter">Carter</a> is that he lost to <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Reagan</a>. As the saying went, Carter was defeated by the three Ks — Khomeini, Kennedy and Koch. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s <a href="/wiki/Iranian_Revolution" title="Iranian Revolution">Iranian revolution</a> led to the <a href="/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis" title="Iran hostage crisis">hostage crisis</a> that was a millstone round Carter’s neck. After 444 days in captivity, the US hostages were released a few minutes after Carter left office. It has not been proved that Reagan struck a back channel deal with Khomeini’s government to keep the hostages until after the 1980 election. But the evidence is very strong. Carter believes that William Casey, Reagan’s campaign manager, did strike a bargain. Such an unnatural Rolodex would also explain Reagan’s <a href="/wiki/Iran-Contra_affair" title="Iran-Contra affair">Iran-Contra</a> shenanigans a few years later. <a href="/wiki/Ted_Kennedy" title="Ted Kennedy">Ted Kennedy</a>’s primary challenge also damaged Carter. Though Kennedy infamously could not explain why he wanted to be president, Carter had his own theory: Kennedy saw it as his birthright. The gap between the rural <a href="/wiki/Georgia_(U.S._state)" title="Georgia (U.S. state)">Georgian</a> <a href="/wiki/Agriculture" title="Agriculture">farmer</a> who grew up without shoes and the <a href="/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a> <a href="/wiki/Aristocracy" title="Aristocracy">aristocrat</a> is a faultline that still hobbles the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic party</a>. Biden is on Carter’s side of it. <a href="/wiki/Ed_Koch" title="Ed Koch">Ed Koch</a> was <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York</a>’s Democratic mayor who thought Carter was biased against Israel. Carter’s Camp David deal neutralised <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a> — Israel’s most potent enemy — and thus did more for Israel’s security than any <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">US president</a> since. No good deed goes unpunished. Carter was the only Democratic president to get less than half of the Jewish vote. <a href="/wiki/Paul_Volcker" title="Paul Volcker">Paul Volcker</a>’s last name does not start with a K. However, the then chair of the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Reserve_System" title="Federal Reserve System">US Federal Reserve</a> is probably the largest contributor to Carter’s defeat. With interest rates at 20 per cent, Carter stood little chance at the ballot box. It is worth noting that Carter picked Volcker in full knowledge of his anti-inflation credentials. On that, as so much else, Carter did the right thing but got no credit. The left hated him for it. The right pretended it was Reagan’s doing. Much the same can be said of how America won the cold war. The moral of Carter’s story is that virtue must be its own reward. History is a biased judge. <ul><li>Edward Luce in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ft.com/content/0bf70e43-45a9-47b2-bdc6-5b2b2392796b"><i>Jimmy Carter has been wronged by history</i></a> (22 February 2023)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Khomeini has offered us the opportunity to regain our frail religion … faith in the power of words. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Norman_Mailer" title="Norman Mailer">Norman Mailer</a>, at a meeting of authors regarding the <i>fatwa</i> against <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salman_Rushdie" class="extiw" title="w:Salman Rushdie">Salman Rushdie</a> , New York City, (February 1989)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Much of the land once ruled by <a href="/wiki/Nader_Shah" title="Nader Shah">Nader Shah</a> today forms the Islamic Republic of Iran, established in 1979 following the popular revolution that forced the abdication of the <a href="/wiki/Imperial_State_of_Iran" title="Imperial State of Iran">shah</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mohammad_Reza_Pahlavi" title="Mohammad Reza Pahlavi">Reza Pahlavi</a>. His fall and exile saw the return of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who oversaw the creation of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shia_Islam" class="extiw" title="w:Shia Islam">Shi'a</a>-dominated <a href="/wiki/Theocracy" title="Theocracy">theocracy</a> that fused a <a href="/wiki/Populism" title="Populism">populist</a> socio-economic programme with <a href="/wiki/Fundamentalist_Islam" class="mw-redirect" title="Fundamentalist Islam">fundamentalist</a> <a href="/wiki/Islamism" title="Islamism">Islamism</a>. Virulent hatred of 'The <a href="/wiki/Great_Satan" title="Great Satan">Great Satan</a>' America and the West (as demonstrated by the <a href="/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis" title="Iran hostage crisis">1979-81 US embassy hostage crisis</a> in Tehran and the death-penalty <a href="/wiki/Fatwa" title="Fatwa">fatwa</a> issued in 1989 against <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">British</a> <a href="/wiki/Author" class="mw-redirect" title="Author">author</a> <a href="/wiki/Salman_Rushdie" title="Salman Rushdie">Salman Rushdie</a> for his supposedly <a href="/wiki/Blasphemy" title="Blasphemy">blasphemous</a> work, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Satanic_Verses" title="The Satanic Verses">The Satanic Verses</a></i>), and anti-Zionism, provided the glue that held together the Republic. Whilst adhering to some democratic forms, Khomeini established a rigid theocratic leadership which ruthlessly stamped out opposition, establishing <a href="/wiki/Guardianship_of_the_Islamic_Jurist" title="Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist">a vice-like grip over political activity</a> that has never been relinquished. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Leader_of_Iran" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Supreme Leader of Iran">Supreme Leader</a>, an ayatollah, backed by the elite <a href="/wiki/Islamic_Revolutionary_Guard_Corps" title="Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps">Revolutionary Guard</a> and a vicious <a href="/wiki/Secret_police" class="mw-redirect" title="Secret police">secret police</a>, controls all policy and outranks the elected president and assembly. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Sebag_Montefiore" class="extiw" title="w:Simon Sebag Montefiore">Simon Sebag Montefiore</a>, <i>Monsters: History's Most Evil Men and Women</i> (2009), p. 186</li></ul></li> <li>The grand ayatollah Khomeini led the 1979 revolution that overthrew the last shah of Iran and became the supreme leader of a theocracy, the Islamic Republic of Iran, that has become an often disruptive power across the <a href="/wiki/Near_East" class="mw-redirect" title="Near East">Near East</a>. This aged, white-bearded Shiite cleric proved to be a dynamic, shrewd and unforgiving revolutionary leader who created a totally new system with his own power protected in a <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_the_Islamic_Republic_of_Iran" title="Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran">constitution</a> that has proved surprisingly enduring, thanks to the brutal suppression of any opposition. Today’s resurgent, bold Iran, pursuing a <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_arsenal" class="mw-redirect" title="Nuclear arsenal">nuclear arsenal</a> and regional hegemony, threatening war against the ‘<a href="/wiki/Great_Satan" title="Great Satan">Great Satan</a>’ America and annihilation of the ‘Little Satan’ <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a>, backing the <a href="/wiki/Hamas" title="Hamas">Hamas</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hezbollah" title="Hezbollah">Hezbollah</a> militias in <a href="/wiki/Gaza_Strip" title="Gaza Strip">Gaza</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lebanon" title="Lebanon">Lebanon</a>, murdering and terrorizing its own people, is the Iran of Khomeini. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Sebag_Montefiore" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Simon Sebag Montefiore">Simon Sebag Montefiore</a>, <i>Titans of History: Giants Who Made Our World</i> (2012),</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The people of Iran are very talented people. They're heirs to one of the world's great <a href="/wiki/Civilization" title="Civilization">civilizations</a>. But in 1979, they were hijacked by <a href="/wiki/Fundamentalism" title="Fundamentalism">religious zealots</a>; religious zealots who imposed on them immediately a dark and brutal <a href="/wiki/Dictatorship" title="Dictatorship">dictatorship</a>. That year, the zealots drafted a <a href="/wiki/Constitutions" title="Constitutions">constitution</a>, a new one for Iran. It directed the revolutionary guards not only to protect Iran's borders, but also to fulfill the ideological mission of jihad. The regime's founder, Ayatollah Khomeini, exhorted his followers to "export the revolution throughout the world." I'm standing here in <a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a> and the difference is so stark. <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">America</a>'s <a href="/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence" title="United States Declaration of Independence">founding document</a> promises life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Iran's founding document pledges <a href="/wiki/Death" title="Death">death</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tyranny" title="Tyranny">tyranny</a>, and the pursuit of jihad. And as <a href="/wiki/State" title="State">states</a> are collapsing across the <a href="/wiki/Middle_East" title="Middle East">Middle East</a>, Iran is charging into the void to do just that. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Netanyahu" title="Benjamin Netanyahu">Benjamin Netanyahu</a>, Address to the United States Congress (March 2015)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The Imam throughout his life called America '<a href="/wiki/The_Great_Satan" class="mw-redirect" title="The Great Satan">the Great Satan</a>'. He believed that all the <a href="/wiki/Muslims" class="mw-redirect" title="Muslims">Muslims</a>' problems were caused by <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">America</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hossein_Shariatmadari" title="Hossein Shariatmadari">Hossein Shariatmadari</a>, as quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,2152314,00.html">"Khomeini 'sought to drop Death to America chant'" by Robert Tait, in <i>Guardian Unlimited</i> (20 August 2007)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Since Khomeini's death, the popular appeal of an Islamic state — and of fundamentalism — has surely dimmed. Thinkers still debate and warriors kill, but no country seems prepared to emulate Iran. Perhaps revolutions happen only under majestic leaders, and no one like Khomeini has since appeared. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Viorst" class="extiw" title="w:Milton Viorst">Milton Viorst</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/khomeini.html"><i>TIME</i> (13 April 13 1998)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ruhollah_Khomeini&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ali_Khamenei" title="Ali Khamenei">Ali Khamenei</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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intellectuals</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:blue;color:white" align="center">France</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jacques_Bainville" title="Jacques Bainville">Bainville</a> ◈ <a href="/wiki/Alain_de_Benoist" title="Alain de Benoist">de Benoist</a> ◈ <a href="/wiki/Georges_Bernanos" title="Georges Bernanos">Bernanos</a> ◈ <a href="/wiki/Gustave_Le_Bon" title="Gustave Le Bon">Le Bon</a> ◈ <a href="/wiki/Louis_de_Bonald" title="Louis de Bonald">de Bonald</a> ◈ <a href="/wiki/Jacques-B%C3%A9nigne_Bossuet" title="Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet">Bossuet</a> ◈ <a href="/wiki/Pascal_Bruckner" title="Pascal Bruckner">Bruckner</a> ◈ <a href="/wiki/Renaud_Camus" title="Renaud Camus">Camus</a> ◈ <a href="/wiki/Alexis_Carrel" title="Alexis Carrel">Carrel</a> ◈ <a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois-Ren%C3%A9_de_Chateaubriand" title="François-René de Chateaubriand">de Chateaubriand</a> ◈ <a href="/wiki/%C3%89mile_Durkheim" title="Émile Durkheim">Durkheim</a> ◈ <a href="/wiki/Guillaume_Faye" title="Guillaume Faye">Faye</a> ◈ <a href="/wiki/Numa_Denis_Fustel_de_Coulanges" title="Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges">Fustel de Coulanges</a> ◈ <a href="/wiki/%C3%89mile_Faguet" title="Émile Faguet">Faguet</a> ◈ <a href="/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Girard" title="René Girard">Girard</a> ◈ <a href="/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Gu%C3%A9non" title="René Guénon">Guénon</a> ◈ <a href="/wiki/Michel_Houellebecq" title="Michel Houellebecq">Houellebecq</a> ◈ <a href="/wiki/Bertrand_de_Jouvenel" title="Bertrand de Jouvenel">de Jouvenel</a> ◈ <a href="/wiki/Joseph_de_Maistre" title="Joseph de Maistre">de Maistre</a> ◈ <a href="/wiki/Charles_Maurras" title="Charles Maurras">Maurras</a> ◈ <a href="/wiki/Ernest_Renan" title="Ernest Renan">Renan</a> ◈ <a href="/wiki/Antoine_de_Rivarol" title="Antoine de Rivarol">de Rivarol</a> ◈ <a href="/wiki/Hippolyte_Taine" title="Hippolyte Taine">Taine</a> ◈ <a href="/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville" title="Alexis de Tocqueville">de Tocqueville</a> ◈ <a href="/wiki/%C3%89ric_Zemmour" title="Éric Zemmour">Zemmour</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:blue;color:white" align="center">Germanosphere</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Otto_von_Bismarck" title="Otto von Bismarck">von Bismarck</a> ◈ <a href="/wiki/Jacob_Burckhardt" title="Jacob Burckhardt">Burckhardt</a> ◈ <a href="/wiki/Johann_Gottlieb_Fichte" title="Johann Gottlieb Fichte">Fichte</a> ◈ <a href="/wiki/Johann_Georg_Hamann" title="Johann Georg Hamann">Hamann</a> ◈ <a href="/wiki/Georg_Wilhelm_Friedrich_Hegel" title="Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel">Hegel</a> ◈ <a href="/wiki/Martin_Heidegger" title="Martin Heidegger">Heidegger</a> ◈ <a href="/wiki/Johann_Gottfried_Herder" title="Johann Gottfried Herder">Herder</a> ◈ <a href="/wiki/Ernst_J%C3%BCnger" title="Ernst Jünger">Jünger</a> ◈ <a href="/wiki/Erik_von_Kuehnelt-Leddihn" title="Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn">von Kuehnelt-Leddihn</a> ◈ <a href="/wiki/Ludwig_Klages" title="Ludwig Klages">Klages</a> ◈ <a href="/wiki/Konrad_Lorenz" title="Konrad Lorenz">Lorenz</a> ◈ <a 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