Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini


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Noun1.Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini - Iranian religious leader of the Shiites; when Shah Pahlavi's regime fell Khomeini established a new constitution giving himself supreme powers (1900-1989)
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