Khomeini's Path In Exile

This map from Google Earth plots the stops the Ayatollah Khomeini made during his time in exile. He spent very little time in Turkey and never made it into Kuwait. Thirteen of his 15 years in exile were spent in Najaf, where he delivered the lectures that formed the ideological center of the Iranian Revolution.

Khomeini returned to Iran after the departure of the Shah. A map of the Shah's path in exile can be found here.



This map details Ayatollah Khomeini's path after he was exiled from Iran in 1964.