Iranian Mullahs or Islamic clergy, chant slogans during an anti-Israeli demonstration Feiziyeh religious school in Iran's clerical capital Qom. It was in this desert city where it all began 42 years ago: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini branded the shah of Iran a 'wretched, miserable man, and set in motion a series of events that led to the Islamic revolution. Khomeini's theocracy, where Shiite clerics exercise absolute power.Iran-Qom Dec 2008