What Were The Significant Influences of Religion Upon Ayatollah Khomeini’s Leadership Style? Ayatollah Khomeini was born in 1902. After his initial religious training he taught in the major Shi'i theological school at Qom, but was exiled for his opposition to the government of the Shah, Reza Khan. Living in Paris after 1978 he orchestrated the Islamic Revolution of 1979 in Iran. He became both the political and religious leader of the country throughout the protracted Iran-Iraq war, …showed first 75 words of 1534 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1534 total…to do so. In this encouragement he created a terrible legacy for the rest of the world to face – these young people turned their eyes the ‘Great Satan’, the United States, and associated countries and have brought their own brand of terrorism under the flag of Islam to the forefront of the world stage. So by the end of his life, far from being a servant of his religion, he was in fact its master.