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From the bestselling author of Saddam comes the definitive biography of Ayatollah Khomeinis Islamic revolution and how his fundamentalist legacy has forever influenced the course of Irans relationship with the West. In February 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Tehran after nearly fifteen years in exile and received a heros welcome. Just as the new world order sought to purge the communist ideologies of the Cold War, the religious doctrine of Islamic fundamentalism emerged to pose an even greater threat to postIron Curtain stabilityand Khomeini would mastermind it into a revolution.Khomeinis Ghost is the account of how an impoverished young student from a remote area of southern Iran became the leader of one of the most dramatic upheavals of the modern age, and how his radical Islamic philosophy now lies at the heart of the modern-day conflict between Iran and the West. Con Coughlin draws on a wide variety of Iranian sources, including religious figures who knew and worked with Khomeini both in exile and in power.Both compelling and timely, Khomeinis Ghost is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand what lies at the center of many of the worlds most intractable conflicts.