RUHOLLAH KHOMEINI - IRAN

Approved for Release: 2018/01/30 C01478463 mmireTT- reciwb Ruhollah KHOMEINI (Phonetic: kohmayNEE) Religious Leader Addressed as: Your Eminence After 15 years of exile in Turkey, Iraq and France, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the charismatic and intransigent symbol of opposition to the Shah, returned to Iran on 1 February 1979. Within 10 days the government of Prime Minister Shapur Bakhtiar had collapsed and the Provisional Govern- ment of the Islamic Republic of Iran had been established. It was...