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Ayatollah Kohmeini:
Ayatollah Ruhollah Kohmeini, an Iraqi religious leader and politician, was imprisoned by his government and exiled in the 1960s. He led the overthrow of the Shah of Iran in 1979. Under a new constitution, he became Iran's supreme leader. Khomeini called for Islamic revolutions around the world. His government executed thousands of opponents of the new Islamic state of Iran. |