Imam Khomeini spent over ۱۴ years in exile before historic return to home in ۱۹۷۹

 Initially, he was sent to Turkey on ۴ November ۱۹۶۴, where he stayed in the city of Bursa for less than a year. He was hosted by a Turkish Colonel named Ali Cetiner in his own residence, who couldn&#۳۹;t find another accommodation alternative for his stay at the time.

Later in October ۱۹۶۵ he was allowed to move to Najaf, Iraq, where he stayed until being forced to leave in ۱۹۷۸, after then-Vice president Saddam forced him out (the two countries would fight a bitter eight year war ۱۹۸۰-۱۹۸۸ only a year after the beginning of Imam Khomeini’s leadership in Iran and the start of Saddam Hussein’s term in Iraq) after which he went to Neauphle le Château in France.

Logically, in the ۱۹۷۰s, as contrasted with the ۱۹۴۰s, he no longer accepted the idea of a limited monarchy under the Iranian Constitution of ۱۹۰۶-۱۹۰۷, an idea that was clearly evidenced by his book Kashf-e Asrar.

In his Islamic Government (Hokumat-e Islami) — which is a collection of his lectures in Najaf published in ۱۹۷۰ — he rejected both the Iranian Constitution as an alien import from Belgium and monarchy in general.

He believed that the Shah government was an un-Islamic and illegitimate institution usurping the legitimate authority of the supreme religious leader (Faqih), who should rule as both the spiritual and temporal guardian of the Muslim community (Umma).

In early ۱۹۷۰ Imam Khomeini gave a lecture series in Najaf on Islamic Government which later was published as a book titled variously Islamic Government or Guardianship of the Islamic Jurists (velayat-e faqih). This was his most famous and influential work and laid out his ideas on governance (at that time).

 

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