Ruhollah Khomeini5 June 1963
State of siege proclaimed in Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini arrested. Khomeini is arrested in 1963 after declaring the Shah a "wretched miserable man" who had "embarked on the destruction of Islam in Iran"
Iran · Religion / Islam. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
State of siege proclaimed in Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini arrested. Khomeini is arrested in 1963 after declaring the Shah a "wretched miserable man" who had "embarked on the destruction of Islam in Iran"
Khomeini is released after eight months of house arrest and continues his agitation, condemning the regimes close cooperation with Israel and its capitulations, or extension of diplomatic immunity to American Government personnel in Iran
Khomeini was re-arrested and sent into exile where he remained for 14 years until the revolution
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