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Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini [ b ] 17 May or 24 September [ a ] — 3 June was an Iranian Islamic revolutionary, politician and religious leader who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from until his death in He was the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the main leader of the Iranian revolution , which overthrew Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and ended the Iranian monarchy.

Ideologically a Shia Islamist , Khomeini's religious and political ideas are known as Khomeinism. Born in Khomeyn , in what is now Iran's Markazi province , his father was murdered in when Khomeini was just two years old. He began studying the Quran and Arabic from a young age and was assisted in his religious studies by his relatives, including his mother's cousin and older brother.

His opposition to the White Revolution resulted in his state-sponsored expulsion to Bursa in Nearly a year later, he moved to Najaf , where speeches he gave outlining his religiopolitical theory of Guardianship of the Jurist were compiled into Islamic Government. Khomeini was Time magazine's Man of the Year in for his international influence and has been described as the "virtual face of Shia Islam in Western popular culture", where he was known for his support of the hostage takers during the Iran hostage crisis , his fatwa calling for the murder of British Indian novelist Salman Rushdie who criticised Muhammad , [ 6 ] and for referring to the United States as the " Great Satan " and the Soviet Union as the "Lesser Satan".

Following the revolution, Khomeini became the country's first supreme leader, a position created in the constitution of the Islamic Republic as the highest-ranking political and religious authority of the nation, which he held until his death. Most of his period in power was taken up by the Iran—Iraq War of — He was succeeded by Ali Khamenei on 4 June The subject of a pervasive cult of personality , Khomeini is officially known as Imam Khomeini inside Iran and by his supporters internationally.