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ayatollah

Honorific title awarded to Shiite Muslims in Iran by popular consent, as, for example, to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (1900–1989).



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The future imam's grandfather, Ayatollah Mohammed Sadiq al-Qazwini, remained in Iraq even though he criticized the Ba'ath regime.
Although he is the elected president of Iran, he serves at the pleasure of Ayatollah All Khamenei, who has been the official "Supreme Leader" since 1990, when he assumed that title upon the death of Ayatollah Khomeini.
Ahmadinejad has announced that he intends to return Iran to the purity of the revolution that brought the Ayatollah Khomeini to power in 1979.
 
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