Ayatollah Sayyid Ruhollah Khomeini died in 1989 after establishing the Islamic Republic of Iran, the first modern-day theocracy, following the Islamic Revolution in 1979. 
Ayatollah Sayyid Ruhollah Khomeini alikufa 1989 baada ya kuasisi Taifa ya Kiislamu la Iran, nchi ya kwanza ya kidini, kufuatia Mapinduzi ya Kiislam mwaka 1979.