How to pronounce “khom” in English

uh just after Khomeini had arrived. What is the Shah and what is Khomeini? Yeah, so the Shah uh the former monarch of

And so how did Khomeini take power of Iran? He led a movement, a mass populist

So I'm Foutse Khomh, from Montreal and it's my honor to introduce to you our second keynote speaker, Dinah McNutt, from Google.

Kind of like a Khomeini, I suppose, of the Renaissance.

Iran different when the Shah was in power versus when Khomeini was in power?

Yeah. When the Ayatollah Khomeini arrived, it was not clear that he was going to have an open invitation to rule.

uh was deposed was was um overthrown in a revolution and uh by Khomeini who was a senior cleric who had been a thorn in

In 1989, when the Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran issued a fatwa against Salman Rushdie for his novel 'The Satanic Verses', my colleagues and I were swept into what felt like

That was February, '79 when the shah was being overthrown in Iran and Ayatollah Khomeini was coming to power.

the sort of royal leader, who was in power. He was overthrown in the late 1970s by Khomeini. Khomeini galvanized

power in the sort of 1980s, early 1980s, because the Khomeini comes in. The British lose that power with the fall of

Ebrahim Yazdi, who became foreign minister and took his Ph.D. in the US, but was very close to Khomeini, in Paris.

You're having trouble sorting out priorities, and what have you, to Khomeini.