Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini (1979) | 60 Minutes Archive
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Just two weeks after the Iran Hostage Crisis began in November 1979, Mike Wallace spoke with Ayatollah Khomeini in this classic interview.
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Ruhollah Khomeini
Supreme Leader of Iran from 1979 to 1989
Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini (17 May 1900 – 3 June 1989) was an Iranian cleric, politician, political theorist and revolutionary who founded the Islamic Republic of Iran and served as its first supreme leader from 1979 until his death in 1989. He was the main leader of the Islamic Revolution, which over...
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