Ruhollah Khomeini
Ruhollah Khomeini
Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ruhollah Mūsavi Khomeini, 24 September 1902 – 3 June 1989), known in the Western world as Ayatollah Khomeini, was an Iranian Shia Muslim religious leader, revolutionary, politician, the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution which saw the overthrow of the Pahlavi monarchy and Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran. Following the revolution, Khomeini became the country's Supreme Leader, a position created in the constitution of the Islamic Republic...
NationalityIranian
ProfessionStatesman
Date of Birth17 May 1900
A man can have sexual pleasure from a child as young as a baby. However, he should not penetrate; sodomising the child is OK. If the man penetrates and damages the child then he should be responsible for her subsistence all her life. This girl, however, does not count as one of his four permanent wives. The man will not be eligible to marry the girl's sister.
We are not afraid of economic sanctions or military intervention. What we are afraid of is Western universities.
Islamic state means a state based on justice and democracy and structured upon Islamic rules and laws.
Those who say that we want nationality, they are standing against Islam....We have no use for the nationalists. Moslems are useful for us. Islam is against nationality....
It is better for a girl to marry in such a time when she would begin menstruation at her husband's house rather than her father's home. Any father marrying his daughter so young will have a permanent place in heaven.
If a fly gets into the throat of one who is fasting, it is not necessary to pull it out.
The Imam throughout his life called America 'the Great Satan'. He believed that all the Muslims' problems were caused by America.
Americans are the great Satan, the wounded snake.
The freedom-lovers of the world mourn the sad demise of Imam Khomeini.
After the Shah's departure from Iran, I will not become a president nor accept any other leadership role. Just like before, I limit my activities only to guiding and directing the people.
If the religious leaders have influence, they will not permit girls and boys to wrestle together, as recently happened in Shiraz.
The fundamental difference between Islamic government, on the one hand, and constitutional monarchy and republics, on the other, is this: whereas the representatives of the people or the monarch in such regimes engage in legislation, in Islam the legislative power and competence to establish laws belong exclusively to God Almighty.
In Iran's future Islamic system everyone can express their opinion, and the Islamic government will respond to logic with logic.
Women are free in the Islamic Republic in the selection of their activities and their future and their clothing.