Khomeini

How To Use Khomeini In A Sentence

• Riyadh's importance was vastly enhanced in 1979, when Ayatollah Khomeini toppled the Shah of Iran, theretofore Washington's chief ally in the Persian Gulf.
• Ever since the late Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, or death sentence, against Rushdie for what some Muslims called the blasphemies in his fantasy-filled novel "The Satanic Verses," Rushdie has been in hiding under the protection of Britain's security police. The Stories Never Stop
• There was no chance that Khomeini would withdraw the fatwa.
• Khomeini, deploring the moral degradation he saw around him and the people's lack of will and moral fibre to combat it, pledged his opposition ‘as long as there is blood in my veins.’
• And finally, in the months after the Islamic republic was established, Khomeini's Iran plunged into bloody violence between competing factions.
• Khomeini preached the theory of wilayat al-faqih (jurisconsult); an elitist concept associated with the supremacy of senior Shiite clergy. Joshua Gleis: Religious Divisions in Iran's Leadership -- More than Meets the Eye
• There were still those among the Shah's military who believed that a coup against Khomeini was possible.
• The re-enactment prompted a national hysteria of jokes and ridicule calling Mr. Khomeini the "cardboard Imam. Letter Writers Break Iranian Taboo
• At that time Khomeini's old friend grand Ayatollah Shariatmadari wrote a fatwa denouncing the events and for the first time used the term revolution using one of the verses of the Quran. Negotiation with Iranian government, neglecting the Iranian people:
• A quietist, he rejected involvement in politics and rejected Khomeini's theory of clerical rule.