Ayatollah Khomeini

Ayatollah Khomeini (1902-1989) (Ruholla Mussavi) was an Iranian Shia Muslim and politician. He was opposed to the rule of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi and therefore lived as an exile in Turkey, Paris and Iraq. After the Shah government collapsed, he returned to Iran and became head of the state in 1979. He introduced strict Islamic tradition and principles in the country which is termed as 'Islamic Revolution'.

Wisdom & Quotes

• The fundamental difference between Islamic government, on the one hand, and constitutional monarchy and republics, on the other, is this whereas the representatives of the people or the monarch in such regimes engage in legislation, in Islam the legislative power and competence to establish laws belong exclusively to God Almighty.

Nazim Hikmet