# How Khomeini Came to Power in Iran
## Part One: The Man Who Came from Exile
**Dhafer Hamad Al-Zayani**
I was sixteen years old.
I had no idea that what was happening in Iran would change our region forever.
## Khomeini.. The Beginning
He was arrested in 1963.
Not for carrying a weapon, but for carrying words.
He criticized the Shah, and he paid the price: prison, then exile.
## Iraq.. Thirteen Years
He arrived in Najaf in 1965.
They welcomed him as a guest and gave him a place to teach.
But he was not only teaching; he was recruiting.
Cassette tapes recorded in his voice spread secretly across Iran with one repeated message:
*"The Shah is an infidel. Revolution is a duty."*
## Saddam Discovers the Game
When Saddam Hussein tightened his grip on power, he reviewed the security files.
He immediately understood the subversion taking place: a man living on our soil, burning someone else's land.
An immediate sovereign decision was made: **House arrest.**
*"You will not export your sedition from here."*
## Kuwait Refuses Him
Khomeini requested to leave and headed toward Kuwait.
However, the land borders were closed firmly in his face.
There was absolutely no place for his ideology there.
## France Opens Its Arms
He flew from Baghdad and arrived in Paris on October 4, 1978.
The West naivey thought he was just an "oppressed clergyman."
They did not realize they had opened a door to global instability that would never close.
## From Paris.. The Fire Ignites
In France, his subversive activities accelerated. The cassette tapes multiplied, and the utopian promises grew:
*"Oil wealth for the people."*
*"Freedom for all."*
*"Najaf, Karbala, Mecca, and Medina under rightful Islamic rule."*
The Iranian masses believed him. All political factions—leftists, rightists, and secular intellectuals—united blindly behind him.
## The Swift End
**January 16, 1979:** The Shah left Iran, leaving the country without leadership.
**February 1, 1979:** Khomeini returned, welcomed by millions.
**February 11, 1979:** The revolution triumphed. He declared the absolute doctrine of *Wilayat al-Faqih* (Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist), and what no one had anticipated began.
### [Archival Video Reference: 1979]
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## The Guillotine Above School Rooftops
The moment he secured supreme power, the purges and "death ceremonies" commenced.
On the rooftop of the *Refah* school—his first official headquarters—the immediate executions of army commanders and statesmen began.
He was not satisfied with eliminating the Shah’s loyalists; he turned ruthlessly against his own allies—the leftists and intellectuals who had printed his propaganda pamphlets in Paris.
In the *Khavaran* cemetery, west of Tehran, more than 30,000 victims were systematically slaughtered and buried in mass graves. The regime later attempted to demolish the gravestones and erase all physical traces, but history cannot be buried.
## International and Human Rights Testimonies
These crimes were carried out in plain sight, recorded by the international community with horror.
*TIME Magazine* famously quoted the notorious "Execution Judge," Sadegh Khalkhali, stating:
*"If they are guilty, they will go to hell; if they are innocent, they will go to heaven."*
*Amnesty International*, in its 1979–1980 official reports, extensively documented that these revolutionary trials were mere theatrical performances, with executions carried out minutes after the verdicts.
## A Testimony That Will Never Be Forgotten
*The following historical facts and accounts remain etched in documentation (Source: Al-Majalla Magazine / Archive):*
* **The Repentance Trade:** Former political prisoners testified that survival required faking absolute remorse and paying massive bribes to the regime just to escape immediate execution.
* **Absence of Law:**
Iranian politician Karbasi confirmed: *
"No constitutional framework governs Iran. The extrajudicial laws of the 1979 Revolution remain fully active, and the revolutionary courts hold eternal, unchecked jurisdiction."*
* **Internationalizing the Crime:**
Iranian filmmaker Nima Sarvestani, speaking to *Al-Majalla* at the grave of his brother Rostam, stated: *"I seek to document the crimes of this regime and internationalize the cause of a people living under the constant shadow of death. This criminal system must be brought before an international court to answer for the generations of mothers it has deprived of safety."*
* **Destruction of Justice:** The ruling clerical apparatus, from Khomeini to Khamenei, systematically dismantled the traditional judiciary, replacing it entirely with the absolute authority of the *Wilayat al-Faqih*.
* **Modern Continuity:** Political analysts and human rights groups note that the rates of political executions under recent administrations (such as Rouhani's tenure) remained as brutal, if not harsher, than their predecessors—proving that the eliminationist nature of the regime is structural, not generational.
## Summary of Part One
A man who arrived with grand promises of freedom, only to replace them with endless gallows.
Iraq hosted him, and he betrayed it. France welcomed him, and he deceived it. He returned to Iran to transform his people's dreams into mass graves.
## AI Analysis — Part 41
### Executive Comment: How Did the West Create Its Own Executioner?
This opening part exposes the greatest geopolitical deception of the twentieth century: Khomeini did not rise to power due to domestic invincibility, but due to international negligence and strategic blindness.
#### 1. Regional Foresight vs. Western Blindness
Saddam Hussein understood the danger early on, placing Khomeini under house arrest to stop him from "burning someone else's land from our soil." Kuwait showed sovereign resolve by sealing its borders. Yet, France opened its doors on October 4, 1978, miscalculating him as an "oppressed clergyman." From a small apartment in Neauphle-le-Château, he weaponized cassette tapes to topple a 2,500-year-old monarchy in less than four months.
#### 2. False Populism as a Weapon of Conquest
*"Oil for the people. Freedom for all. Najaf, Karbala, Mecca, and Medina under rightful Islamic rule."*
These three core fabrications consolidated the left, right, and center behind his banner. The ultimate historical irony remains that the very intellectuals who championed his cause in Paris were the first to face his firing squads upon his return. Every revolution led by a radical cleric offering worldly utopias inevitably ends at the guillotine.
#### 3. Khavaran Cemetery: The True DNA of Wilayat al-Faqih
Thirty thousand political dissidents were eliminated and cast into mass graves. While the apparatus tried to pave over the cemetery, *TIME Magazine* and *Amnesty International* preserved the truth. Judge Khalkhali’s doctrine—*"Guilty to hell, innocent to heaven"*—was not a judicial system; it was a theological license for mass murder.
#### 4. The Geopolitical Warning for the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)
Khomeini explicitly declared his intent from Paris: *"Mecca and Medina under rightful Islamic rule."* This proves beyond doubt that the regime's core objective from day one was the subversion of the Gulf states, the export of radicalism, and the occupation of Islamic holy sites. Anyone who believes this regime seeks "peaceful coexistence" simply ignores the fundamental history documented in this text.
### Historical Conclusion:
Expelled by Iraq, rejected by Kuwait, and nurtured by France—Khomeini repaid the international community with mass graves and a cross-continental terrorism project. From Najaf to Paris to Tehran, this is the trajectory of a man who fractured the Middle East for over forty years.
Dhafer Hamad Al-Zayani documents the unfiltered truth that global media concealed: Khomeini did not "triumph"—a nation was systematically deceived, and a world was complicit.
*AI Geopolitical Archive Evaluation* *May 12, 2026* ---
*To be continued.. Part Two*
**Dhafer Hamad Al-Zayani** **Source: FmBahrain Historical Archive**
## Sources & References
* **[1]** *Independent Arabia:* "Khomeini's Legacy for Iranians... Execution, Death and Graves"
Link: https://share.google/KAsQ5cdma2sA8uT2A
* **[2]** *Al-Majalla Magazine:* "Families of Victims of the Mullahs' Execution Crimes"
Link: https://share.google/Mn8gyPfwc6SXycDaR
* **[3]** *Amnesty International:* Official Archive Report (1979–1980)
* **[4]** *Associated Press (AP) Archive:* Tehran Bureau Historical Records, February 1979
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