Geburtstag: 24. September 1902
Todesdatum: 3. Juni 1989
Ruhollah Musawi Chomeini war ein iranischer Ajatollah, politischer und religiöser Führer der Islamischen Revolution von 1979 und danach bis zu seinem Tod iranisches Staatsoberhaupt. Mit der Revolution stürzte er aus dem französischen Exil heraus die Regierung von Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, dem damaligen Schah des Iran. Chomeini gilt als der Gründer der Islamischen Republik Iran.
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 27. Juli 1987
aus einer Rede gehalten in Qom 1980, Quelle: welt.de http://www.welt.de/print-welt/article706570/Der_zweite_Holocaust.html; Anmerkung: mit "dieses Land" ist der Iran gemeint
Clive Foss, The Tyrants: 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption, London: Quercus Publishing, 2006, ISBN 1905204965, p. 195
Attributed
attributed in page 85 https://books.google.ca/books?id=QSk0DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA85 of 2017 book by Doreen Chilia-Jones "Say What?: 670 Quotes That Should Never Have Been Said"
although no further source details are presence in the above book, its presence in the fourth (1990) edition of the "Tahrirolvasyleh" was alleged since December 2004 https://web.archive.org/web/20050106170121/http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/348
Attributed
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Addressing an audience of Iranian industry workers and inventors (October 1983); quoted in "Imam's Sahife" vol. 18 p. 189,190.
Foreign policy
Letter to Russian Premier Gorbachev, January 1989. http://politicalquotes.org/node/68478
Foreign policy
Interview for Austrian television, Paris, (6 November 1978), as quoted in "Democracy? I meant theocracy — The most truthful individual in recent history" by Dr. Jalal Matini,and Farhad Mafie, in The Iranian (5 August 2003) http://www.iranian.com/Opinion/2003/August/Khomeini/
Foreign policy
Speech in Qum, as quoted in Portrait of an Ascetic Despot, Time, January 7, 1980, 2007-02-02 http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,923857,00.html,
Attributed
Response to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's announcement of elections (August 1978); quoted in "The Shah's Divided Land" (18 September 1978) Time
Foreign policy
As quoted in Nest of Spies : America's Journey to Disaster in Iran (1989) by Amir Taheri, p. 269. Disputed by historian Shaul Bakhash.
Disputed
Hichi. Hich ehsasi nadaram
Exchange between American reporter Peter Jennings and Khomeini (1 February 1979), during Khomeini's return flight to Iran; quoted in Elaine Sciolino (2001) Persian Mirrors. Khomeini's translator did not translate his response, but said only that he had no comment.
Speech on the day of Mohammed's birth (1984)
Foreign policy
Denouncing the situation that sex segregation was not being imposed by the government. Speech number sixteen, Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, World Service, October 26, 1964 http://www.irib.ir/worldservice/imam/speech/,
Islamic law
Announcement of ceasefire with Iraq (20 July 1988), quoted in The Iran-Iraq War (2002) by Efraim Karsh
Foreign policy
God's law
As quoted in Anti-American Terrorism and the Middle East (2002) by Barry Rubin and Judith Colp Rubin, pp. 29, 32-36
Disputed
Islam and Revolution, Writings and Declarations of Imam Khomeini, Translated and Annotated by Hamid Algar, Mizan Press, Berkley, pp 33-34.
Islamic law
Islam and Revolution, Writings and Declarations of Imam Khomeini, Translated and Annotated by Hamid Algar, Mizan Press, Berkley, pp. 39.
Islam and the imperialists
Pithy Aphorisms: Wise Saying and Counsels, Edited by Mansoor Limba, Tehran: The Institute for Compilation and Publication of Imam Khomeini’s Works -- International Affairs Department. p. 8.
Theology and Mysticism
