The guards' statement comes a month after Ayatollah Khomeini's successor Ayatollah Khamenei said he still believed the British novelist deserved to die.
The opposition movement 31 years ago was led by the shah's nemesis, Ayatollah Khomeini.
Herman Zweibel, founded Fars with the government approval of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini.
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Heck, look at Ayatollah Khomeini: for nearly four decades he was first name in crazy.
That is on a par with the number of executions this year by Ayatollah Khomeini's "revolutionary" courts.
Nearby, Hezbollah holds weekend training camps, indoctrinating Arab youth in the extremist literature of the Ayatollah Khomeini.
Talk of citizens' rights, they argue, means legalising immorality and trampling upon the legacy of Ayatollah Khomeini.
This month is the 20th anniversary of the fatwa against Salman Rushdie by the Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran.
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Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini listened daily to the Nazi propaganda broadcast from Berlin by Moslem Brother Haj Amin al-Husseini.
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During that year, the Shah of Iran was forced to flee the country and the Ayatollah Khomeini took power.
The revolution inspired by Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979 was losing its harder edges.
His conservative opponents disagree: were the late Ayatollah Khomeini still around, they say, he would ban such outbursts of uncontrolled emotion.
Ayatollah Montazeri was Ayatollah Khomeini's designated successor as Supreme Leader in the 1980s, but was disgraced shortly before Khomeini's death in 1988.
In 1979, then-President Carter undermined the Shah of Iran and made possible the Ayatollah Khomeini's return to Iran and subsequent Islamic revolution.
Considered so extreme that the Ayatollah Khomeini formally banned the group in the early 1980s, the society was forced to move underground.
He played it smart, aligning himself in the 1960s with factions led by Ayatollah Khomeini, then becoming the go-to guy after the revolution.
The Shah of Iran from 1941, he lost control of his country and fled in 1979, when revolutionary leader Ayatollah Khomeini succeeded him.
Technically a Fatwa dies with the person who pronounced it, but for many Shiite Muslims in Iran, the Ayatollah Khomeini's edicts remain sacroscant.
Even Ayatollah Khomeini, who wanted to deny the Great Satan Iran's bounty, learnt that he could not feed his people without selling oil.
Since then terror-exporting and radical Islamic Iran, established by Ayatollah Khomeini and his followers in 1979, remains mostly a black hole for American intelligence.
It was in 1989 that the late Ayatollah Khomeini issued his Fatwa - or spiritual opinion - that effectively condemned Salman Rushdie to death.
The 14th was also the anniversary of Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwa sentencing Rushdie (and his editors and publishers) to death for publishing The Satanic Verses.
Three years later, a grateful Hussein obliged a nervous Shah when the latter asked that Ayatollah Khomeini, then an obscure exile in Iraq, be expelled.
And it was about this time in that process that the Ayatollah Khomeini, who had been banished, exiled from Iran by the Shah, triumphantly returned.
Islamic fundamentalists led by the Ayatollah Khomeini won control in Tehran.
The doubters include not only leading scholars in the seminaries of Qom, but some of Ayatollah Khomeini's closest associates, including prominent members of his own family.
The protestors have no charismatic leader like 1979's Ayatollah Khomeini, and Messrs Khamenei and Ahmadinejad have more popular backing than the shah did in his era.
Known as bonyads, the best-known of these outfits were established from seized property and enterprises by order of Ayatollah Khomeini in the first weeks of his regime.
The impulse to minimize the threat we face is eerily reminiscent of the way America's leaders played down the Ayatollah Khomeini's revolutionary fanaticism in the late 1970s.
In 1988, fear of an even bigger U.S. military attack persuaded Ayatollah Khomeini to "drink the cup of poison" by agreeing to end his eight-year war with Iraq.
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