Middle East Leaders - Ayatollah Khomeini

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Ayatollah Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini died in 1989 at the age of eighty-six. His Islamic revolutionary leadership, however, still casts a long shadow across world affairs. For many people in Iran and other Muslim countries, he is a hero. He was the man who brought down a corrupt monarchy. He drove our "the Great Satan" (America). He also placed the religion of Islam at its rightful place at the center of both political and everyday life in Iran. In the West, he is remembered as a fanatical dictator. He turned Iran from an island of stability in the Middle East to a supporter of terror and an exporter of revolution.