Ruhollah Khomeini

Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini (1902-1989) (Farsi روح الله موسوی خمینی) was an Iranian religious leader and scholar, politician, and leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution which overthrew Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the late Shah of Iran. Following the revolution and a national referendum, Khomeini became the country's Supreme Leader—-a position created in the constitution as the head of the Iranian state--until his death.

Ruholla Khomeini in Worldwar
Ruhollah Khomeini was, for a period in the 1960s, a successful leader of resistance to the Race's rule in the Middle East, until his capture and exiled to South America.

When the Race invaded in 1942, the entire Middle East fell quickly. Khomeini, who'd been living in Iraq, remained there, making his headquarters in Basra. He began a process of agitation that would disrupt the Race's rule. Khomeini declared that the Race had been created by Satan. When the Colonization Fleet arrived in 1962, Khomeini stepped up his agitation, calling upon his followers to rise up against the males of the Conquest Fleet. In one such event, the Race infantry harshly put down an uprising of disgruntled Muslims.

Khomeini's capture became a top priority to the leaders of the Race. His followers were able to hide him for some time, until a stroke of bad luck landed him in the hands of an infantrymale named Gorppet. By the orders of Fleetlord Atvar (at the suggestion of his human advisor Moishe Russie), Khomeini was transferred to South America on the theory that Khomenini would have little influence on the Spanish-speaking, predominantly Catholic region.