Answer 1
This is incorrect, please read the book All the Shah's Men for a good understanding of how the Shah or Iran was put into power and how he was thrown out. Ayatollah Khomeini was a leader of a religious and political uprising that was cultivated by the actions of the United States fledgling CIA ie Kermit Roosevelt.
Answer 2
There is a supposition in this question that is partially incorrect, namely that the primary or most important people to overthrow the Shah were fundamentalist Muslims led by the Ayatollah Khomeini. This is not the case. The Iranian people, most of them traditional or secular Muslims revolted all across Iran. The Religious Fundamentalists were a minority of those Iranians who were protesting. When the Shah abdicated, there was an intent to create a Republic that represented the Iranian People. However, between April and October of 1979 (after the Shah had already departed the country and the Islamic Republic of Iran declared) the Ayatollahs were able to consolidate power and create the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran which vested the Religious Fundamentalists with political power.
Iranians in general were opposed to the Shah and opposed him from nearly every political perspective. These include:
Wealth & Employment Issues: Most importantly was the wealth inequality between the Shah and the nobility and common Iranian citizen. There was immense poverty throughout the country and high unemployment, underemployment, low wages, and few protections for laborers.
Religious Conservatism: Most Iranians were religiously conservative (similar to the American Bible-belt as opposed to the Fundamentalists) and resisted the Shah's Westernization and Secularization movements in Iran. The Shah made clear that religion was not important to him as a ruler, whereas it was a concern among the people.
Puppet to Foreigners: The Shah was also seen as a Western puppet, especially when the CIA overthrew the Iranian President Mossadegh in 1953 to re-install the Shah of Iran and considering how Iran profited very little from its own petroleum.
Brutal Secret Police: The Shah had a notorious secret police called the SAVAK which harassed people and killed scores of others.
Authoritarianism: Iranians wanted to be in control of their own affairs. Iranians wanted some form of self-government or democracy. The Shah was an authoritarian who prevented people from expressing their own opinions.
Issue for Fundamentalists: Particularly in the fundamentalist camp, the fundamentalists in Iran felt that the Shah epitomized a Western culture of greed and materialism, because he tried to establish a more secular government. As with many rulers, he accumulated vast personal wealth. He also employed various means to suppress political dissent. It was ultimately the exiled Ayatollah Khomeini who in 1979 succeeded the Shah and established an Islamic religious government.
Note: The fact that these grievances existed does not mean that the Islamic Republic of Iran afterwards "fixed" these problems.
NO. Ayatollah Khomeini ruled IRAN in the 1980s and was a determined ENEMY of the United States.
Ayatollah Khomeini took over the Iranian government in 1979.
The ayatollah is chosen by the Assembly of Experts.
There is an implication in this question that is partially incorrect, namely that the primary or most important people to overthrow the Shah were fundamentalist Muslims led by Ayatollah Khomeini. This is not the case. The Iranian people, most of them traditional or secular Muslims revolted all across Iran. The Religious Fundamentalists were a minority of those Iranians who were protesting. When the Shah abdicated, there was an intent to create a Republic that represented the Iranian People. However, between April and October of 1979 (after the Shah had already departed the country and the Islamic Republic of Iran declared) Ayatollah Khomeini was able to consolidate power for himself and the other Ayatollahs and create the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran which vested the Religious Fundamentalists with political power.
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (1902-1989) was an exiled religious and political leader who became the Supreme Leader of Iran following the overthrow of the Shah (Reza Pahlavi) in 1979.he was famous islamic leader or marja taglid in the contemporary century .he is aslo the founder of the islamic republic of the iran .He is Imam Khomeini, the leader of Iranian Islamic revolution.
the Ayatollah Khomeini is leader of islamic revolution in iran .he, however was the religious authority ,mystics and great jurist.
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
Ayatollah Khomeini was convinced that America has colonized Iran and the Shah of Iranis America's puppet government.
The King Mohammed Reva Shah Pahlavi was dethroned and replaced with the Islamic Republic of Iran and its leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
Khadijeh Saqafi was the wife of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Saqafi was known as the "mother of the Islamic Revolution" within Iran.
Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini in 1979.
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
Ayatollah Khomeini.
NO. Ayatollah Khomeini ruled IRAN in the 1980s and was a determined ENEMY of the United States.
1979 with the overthrow of the shah's government.
the late Imam Khomeini was the great leader of Islamic republic of Iran.
This is not actually the case. Saddam Hussein declared war on Iran. The Iranians (led by Ayatollah Khomeini) tried to repel the attack.