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Yesterday, Ahmadinejad said the Iranian supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was like a father to him.

The American hostages in Iran had been held by the Ayatollah Khomeini for almost a year.

Ayatollah Khamenei said the Islamic Republic would not cheat or betray the vote of the people.

He made his decision after receiving a direct order from the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini received a tumultuous welcome in Tehran as he ended nearly 15 years of exile.

A senior ayatollah recently denounced those who are "trying to beat a path to negotiations with America" .

Far better, the ayatollah may judge, to ride out the two years that remain before Mr Ahmadinejad is constitutionally required to stand down.

[Ayatollah Ali] Khamenei was our last hope, but his sermon [last Friday] made us out to be the enemies of Islam and Iran.

If this continues for another two weeks, I think the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, will have a serious situation on his hands.

"Khomeini used them all" she said of the grand ayatollah who led the 1979 Islamic revolution.

Among those held, according to a website, was a granddaughter of the revolution's founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

Some chanted "death to the dictator" , often shouting accusations that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, was a murderer.

Ayatollah Hakim was the leader of the main Iraqi Shi'ite group opposed to Saddam Hussein.

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's call hedged his strong backing of the result of Friday's vote.

Ayatollah Montazeri was a close ally of Ayatollah Khomeini and was at one time viewed as his successor as supreme leader.

But Iran's judiciary chief, Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, said the Iraqi Cabinet acted "very well" in approving the pact.

The Ayatollah appeared to rebuff an attempt by Mr. Ahmedinejad to kiss his hand.

The defining characteristic of the Iranian elite since the death of Ayatollah Khomeini has been its fear of youth.

The opposition also says Iranian officials briefly detained the granddaughter of the leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini .

Two letters from Mr Obama to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, are reported to have received a dusty answer.

It took an ayatollah to tell traditional families to educate their daughters.

The opposition had defied warnings from Ayatollah Khamenei, who had also backed the outcome of the election in a speech on Friday.

The previous week, the regime's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, lambasted Britain as the "most evil" country.

And there is one less ayatollah to challenge Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, in his claim to lead all the world's Shias.

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said last week's election demonstrated the majority of Iranians trusted the Islamic regime.

He was accused of blasphemy and the Ayatollah Khomeini ordered him executed and offered bounty for his death.

Plan One : Assigning land armies like in Iraq war, then occupying Teheran and overthrowing "Ayatollah political power" .

It commemorates the assassination of Iranian professor Ayatollah Morteza Motahhari.

A banner underneath stated a famous quote by Islamic Revolution's founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, 'America can't do a damn thing. '

Official news reports described Mohammadi as devout, loyal to the Islamic Republic and to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Hassanyari notes that there has been talk of Sadr eventually taking the place of Iraq's venerable Shi'ite cleric Ayatollah Ali Sistani.

Passions are running so high that the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is calling on Iranians to vote wisely.

Hezbollah was founded in 1982 by Lebanese Shiite clerics inspired by the Islamic revolutionary ideology of Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini.

Most dramatically, the position of the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been sorely undermined.

In recent speeches, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other top officials have called this emerging conflict the 'soft war. '

American Bishop meets with Iranian Ayatollah in the holy city of Qom to affirm their religions'common quest for peace.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei urged the world's Muslim populations to unite against Israel's attacks on Hamas in Gaza.

Its last monarch, Shah Reza Pahlavi, was overthrown in 1979, but he was replaced by yet another autocrat, the Ayatollah Khomeini.

Shahroudi is reportedly very close to Iran's top leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenai.

It also gave ultimate authority to the Supreme Leader, a position held by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini until his death in June 1989.

The occasion, in February 2009, was the 30th anniversary of Ayatollah Khomeini's takeover.

Mr Sadr was once derided as "Ayatollah Atari" , a nickname denoting his love of computer games.

America and Iran have been at loggerheads ever since Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution of 1979.

In 1989 Iran's supreme cleric, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, urged Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie, a British writer.

Ayatollah Sistani, the most revered Shia on the planet, has often urged restraint in Iraq.

It saw off Ayatollah Khomeini's attempts to export the Iranian revolution.

The solution, he insists, is clear: the people must get rid of Ayatollah Khamenei as Supreme Guide with dictatorial powers.

Being a marjah is one step beyond being an ayatollah.

On the Cairo streets, however, people were betting he will have less luck than the Ayatollah.

There is a hair's breadth between me and the condemnation of the Ayatollah.

Usually they give an object (cloth for example) to Ayatollah's servants and Ayatollah touched them and returned them back to people.

When the Ayatollah came to power in Iran they killed over 30, 000 in the first 20 days. . . No revolt there. . .

Shiite officials who met with the ayatollah said eh found the latest draft acceptable, if not perfect;