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@[]##THE AYATOLLAH DIALLED A REVOLUTION#CROWDS MOB RETURNING EXILE KHOMEINI@EMBASSY ORDEAL OF BLINDFOLDED HOSTAGES####EIGHT DIE PAYING LAST RESPECTS TO KHOMEINI
When Khomeini took power in Iran, three million people left the country#During his exile in France, Khomeini telephoned sermons to Iran, where they were taped and then sent to mosques all over the country#Khomeini was born into a family with strong religious convictions: both his father and grandfather were mullahs. He takes his name from his birthplace, the village of Khomein, some 60 miles from Tehran#The only other Islamic republic in the world is Pakistan#More than 40,000 people were executed during Khomeini's era - far more than under the Shah. Most of the dead were former supporters of the 1979 Islamic revolution#Khomeini described the United States as the "Great Satan." He also called Britain the "Little Satan" and France qualified at one stage as the "adolescent Satan"#When the Ayatollah died, scores of women sprayed cars and pedestrians with perfume in a traditional gesture marking the death of an Islamic leader#Until his exile, the Ayatollah was a teacher in the Shiite holy city of Qom#More than 6,400 sentences of physical punishment were passed in Tehran in a single year - March 1986 to March 1987. Nearly 1,100 of these were floggings imposed for sentences related to alcohol or sex. A forger could be sentenced to 74 lashes; an unmarried couple who kiss might receive up to 99 lashes
