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date: 05 November 2026

Ruhollah Khomeini (Ayatollah Khomeini) 1900–89
Iranian Shiite Muslim leader, who in 1979 returned from exile to lead an Islamic revolution which established Iran as a fundamentalist Islamic republic 

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