Since 1979, the name of the town has been unwillingly associated with Ruhollah Khomeini ... ayatollah to stay here," Elisabeth Sandjivy, the mayor of Neauphle, said in Le Parisien. A work of art ...
Khomeini was a marja or marja al-taqlid ("source of emulation", also known as a Grand Ayatollah) in Twelver Shi'a Islam, but is most famous for his political role. In his writings and preachings ...
The Ayatollah Khomeini, the current regime’s founder, issued a fatwa for Rushdie’s murder in 1989. A bounty, raised in recent years, stood at approximately $3 million at the time of the ...