Ruhollah Khomeini1963
Leads Moslem resistance to female emancipation, is arrested & exiled
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Leads Moslem resistance to female emancipation, is arrested & exiled
Away from public view, Khomeini develops the ideology of velayat-e faqih (guardianship of the jurist) as Government, that Muslims require "guardianship," in the form of rule or supervision by the leading Islamic jurist or jurists.
Exiled to Turkey for opposing the Shahs Status of Forces Bill, granting US immunity
Khomeini was re-arrested and sent into exile where he remained for 14 years until the revolution.
The Islamic revival begins to undermine the idea of Westernization as progress that was the basis of the Shahs secular regime, and to form the ideology of the 1979 revolution.
Moves to Iraq where he remains until 1978
During the Islamic month of Muharram, over two million people filled the streets of Tehrans Azadi Square (then Shahyad Square), to demand the removal of the Shah and return of Khomeini
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