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Bygone Head Of Iran

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noun

• title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran

31%8 Revolutionary who led Iran through the Iran–Iraq War
noun

• Iranian religious leader of the Shiites; when Shah Pahlavi's regime fell Khomeini established a new constitution giving himself supreme powers (1900-1989)

23%9Head of state in Iran
noun

• a high-ranking Shiite religious leader who is regarded as an authority on religious law and its interpretation and who has political power as well

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