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Ayatollah Predecessor Crossword Clue

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noun

• title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran

33%7Ayatollah Khomeini's nationality
adjective

• of or relating to Iran or its people or language or culture

noun

• a native or inhabitant of Iran

• the modern Persian language spoken in Iran

33%8 Famous Shiite cleric and Ayatollah
noun

• Iranian religious leader of the Shiites; when Shah Pahlavi's regime fell Khomeini established a new constitution giving himself supreme powers (1900-1989)

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