Historical records for Iran in 1964, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
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 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
Appointed Prime Minister of Iran
Khomeini was re-arrested and sent into exile where he remained for 14 years until the revolution
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.
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