Khomeini was arrested in November 1964 and held for half a year. Upon his release, Khomeini was brought before Prime Minister Hassan Ali Mansur, who tried to convince him to apologize for his harsh rhetoric and going forward, cease his opposition to the Shah and his government. When Khomeini refused, Mansur slapped him in the face in a fit of rage. Two months later, Mansur was assassinated on his way to parliament. Four members of the Fadayan-e Islam, a Shia militia sympathetic to Khomeini, were later executed for the murder.[58]

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In the "official" narrative of the Iranian revolution, Khomeini "bravely defied" the U.S. and "defeated 'the Great Satan'", "staunchly" resisting any direct contact with the US.[84] However U.S. government documents — "diplomatic cables, policy memos, meeting records" declassified in 2016 and published by the BBC — indicate Khomeini did send messages to the US two weeks prior to the revolution, and that these may have been successful in facilitating his return from exile to Iran. According to the documents, Khomeini told an American in France to convey a message to Washington that "You will see we are not in any particular animosity with the Americans," said that his Islamic Republic will be "a humanitarian one, which will benefit the cause of peace and tranquillity for all mankind". Khomeini also "pledged not to destroy the military".[85] The Carter administration helped Khomeini return to Iran by preventing the Iranian army from launching a military coup.[84]

A CIA analysis report titled "Islam in Iran",[84] also indicates that years earlier, in November 1963, Khomeini (while under house arrest for rallying opposition to the shah's White Revolution reforms as a foreign inspired "attack on Islam"), contacted the administration of U.S. president John F. Kennedy, sending a message through cleric and Tehran University professor Haj Mirza Khalil Kamarah'i. In it, he stated that he "was not opposed to American interests in Iran", and that "on the contrary, he thought the American presence was necessary as a counterbalance to Soviet and possibly British influence".[85]

According to Kambiz Fattahi of the BBC, the document show that Carter's gullible attempts to understand Khomeini's plans were a "massive blunder" underestimating Khomeini's mendacious shrewdness, while Khomeini "played his hand masterfully". Within a year large numbers of high level Iranian military were executed,[85] Khomeini was holding the US Charge d'Affaires and dozens of other Americans hostage in Tehran under the slogan "America can't do a damn thing," and establishing an anti-American legacy that lasted for decades.[85][86] Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei denied the report, and described the documents as "fabricated". Other Iranian politicians including Ebrahim Yazdi, who was Khomeini's spokesman and adviser at the time of the revolution, denounced the documents and the BBC's report.[84]

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On 16 January 1979, the Shah left the country for medical treatment (ostensibly "on vacation"), never to return.[87] Two weeks later, on Thursday, 1 February 1979, Khomeini returned in triumph to Iran, welcomed by a joyous crowd reported to be of up to five million people.[87] On his chartered Air France flight back to Tehran, he was accompanied by 120 journalists,[88][89] including three women.[89] One of the journalists, Peter Jennings, asked: "Ayatollah, would you be so kind as to tell us how you feel about being back in Iran?"[90] Khomeini answered via his aide Sadegh Ghotbzadeh: "Hichi" (Nothing).[90] This statement – much discussed at the time[91] and since[92] – was considered by some to be reflective of his mystical beliefs and non-attachment to ego,[93] by others to be a warning to Iranians who hoped he would be a "mainstream nationalist leader" that they were in for disappointment,[94] or of Khomeini's disinterest in the desires, beliefs, or the needs of the Iranian populace.[92]

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imagine the shitlib media talking to trump this way after his 2nd inauguration

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Ruhollah Khomeini came from a lineage of small land owners, clerics, and merchants.[9] His ancestors migrated towards the end of the 18th century from their original home in Nishapur, then part of Khorasan province, in northeastern Iran for a short stay to the Kingdom of Awadh, a region in the modern state of Uttar Pradesh, India, whose rulers were Twelver Shi'a Muslims of Persian origin.[10][11][12] During their rule, they extensively invited and received a steady stream of Persian scholars, poets, jurists, architects, and painters.[13] The family eventually settled in the small town of Kintoor, near Lucknow, the capital of Awadh.[14][15][16][17]

Ayatollah Khomeini's paternal grandfather, Ahmad Hindi, was born in Kintoor.[15][17] He left Lucknow in 1830, on a pilgrimage to the tomb of Ali in Najaf, Ottoman Iraq (now Iraq), and never returned.[14][17] According to biographer Baqer Moin, this migration was to escape from the spread of British power in India.[18] In 1834, Seyyed Ahmad Musavi Hindi visited Iran, and in 1839, he settled in Khomein.[15] Although he stayed and settled in Iran, he continued to be known as Hindi, indicating his stay in India, and Ruhollah Khomeini even used Hindi as a pen name in some of his ghazals.[14]

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