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When Khomeini suggested his Velayat-i Faqih (the rule of the clergy), he wasn’t really familiar with the practice of this methodology and only had one obvious goal—the ousting of the shah and his monarchy. Khomeini and his Revolutionary Council, who established themselves in France in late 1978, unanimously declared that Iran under their rule would establish a new regime based on a new constitution and a codex of laws derived from the Quran and Shari’a including the interpretations of Khomeini and other Shi’i mujtaheds.
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Cohen, R.A. (2013). Danger Ahead: Challenging Khomeini. In: The Hojjatiyeh Society in Iran. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137304773_5
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