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Do you have a source showing that he was imprisoned in Iraq? Wikipedia suggests he was there freely

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhollah_Khomeini%27s_life_in_...


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jacquesm01/04/2026

He was imprisoned in Iran, then went to Turkey and from there to Iraq iirc, but it is long ago, so I suspect the GP meant after he was arrested by the Shah.

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