Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini

The greatest leader of the 20th century

Another piece of human waste.

One thing I cannot figure out is that the Shah, who was undeniably brutal, was no different than Khomeini when it came to human rights.  Despite this fact, the people of Iran nearly worshiped Khomeini.  The strange thing is, despite his brutality, the Shah began to modernize the technology within Iran.  When Khomeini seized power, he ordered a very literal interpretation of the Qur’an. He decreed that all non-Muslims are evil infidels and should be killed. He wanted to restore old-fashioned traditions and that caused the country to return to the Stone Ages.  The reason the United States and the Shah had diplomatic relations was because he allowed the United States to establish communication listening posts along the border of the Soviet Union. My opinion is when those radicals invaded the US Embassy and took the people hostage, we should have given Khomeini an ultimatum.  If he did not release all of the hostages unharmed in 24 hours, we blow the hell out of Iran and turn it into a cra... Read more

This proves GenghisTheHun's Instruction on Middle-Eastern Politics (GIMP.) Dumping a bad actor usually gets someone worse. This guy makes the Shah look saintly.

I've no doubt that the Shah was hardly a prime humanitarian, but this guy was certainly a nutjob...Looked like Saruman from Lord of the Rings if Saruman had converted to Islam. I'm basically a hardened cynic about most leaders of any sort. I grew up in an urban setting, specifically a part of Boston called Dorchester, and I remember walking down the street there when I was in the 2nd or 3rd grade, and seeing that a dog had taken a dump on the corner. This was at the same time as the hostage crisis. Someone had spray painted a long arrow pointing to the turd and at the end of the arrow, it said "AYATOLLAH," which struck me as hilarious at the time.

It may not be a popular opinion on here, but he was a vast improvement (as far as the Iranians went) on his predecessor. I shed no tears for the Shah, and I hold no torch for Khomeini.

Try saying this persons name after a few shots of Moonshine.....another crazy middle easterner that has a bunch of brainwashed people as his followers.....

Khomeini tried to help his people by rescuing them from the impotent rule of the Shah, but all he did was hinder Iran's progress and put his country at odds with the International Community up till today. Normally, revoultions are meant to bring good, but all it did was set up a fundamentalist government that suffocated itself by closing it's eyes to foreign investment and also by trying to brainwash its people. Khomeini would not have been an ideal leader because of this and he blamed the USA because they happened to support the ignorant Shah at the time. Iran could have been a much better country if someone other than Khomeini took power after the revolution.

I'm giving him a four because he tried so hard to help his people.

what an ass. he's very creepy

He did want to help his country Iran. He wanted to help his people. But he really wasn't educated enough to do it. He was definetly not an ideal leader. He called for the execution of writer Salman Rushdie. But Khomeni tried to save his country and he really did everything he could to protect his people.

Possibly the most ghoulish evil person to ever lead a modern day country.Probably not the best choice to have over to your house for a dinner party.

sowed hatred for generations!

Islamic comic.

The Ayatollah Khomeini's rise to power did not have to be. His fundamentalist regime turned the clock on Iran's progress as a nation that was building for the 21st Century. Most Iranians are actually very liberal people who do not hate the United States; there has always been a wellspring of support for the United States. The reason why Iran went down the track of fundamentalism was because the Shah (former leader of Iran until 1979) was simply a bad leader. He was a small minded, ostentatious leader who lead the pampered life and did not understand the needs of his people. The Ayatollah and his followers were being oppressed because the Shah was simply not tolerant of opposing views. We happened to support the Shah throughout the 1970's, so the Ayatollah and his followers used the U.S. as a scapegoat for their problems. He took over through an "Islamic Revolution"; isn't a revolution meant to cause progress, not take it back? The Shah was bad, but a true revolution in Iran should have... Read more

Ayatullah is an assaholla says it all. A true nutcase.

PSYCHO!!!!! For someone who was supposed to be SUPER RELIGIOUS, he sure turned a lot of would-be-Muslims AWAY from the Islamic religion unfairly! His extremist attitude and anti-Western crap were widely covered by the media, giving Islam a bad name.....even though the MAJORITY of Muslims in the world don't even consider the Shia (especially HIM!) to be Muslim!

2nd to Hitler.

Very religious people are always dangerous! :o(

Absolute intolerance for Western ideas and culture has hurt his country.