Iranian Shiite mullahs relaxing at courtyrad of the Feiziyeh religious school in Iran's clerical capital Qom, 120 kms south of Tehran, 09 May 2005. 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, Qom's Feiziyeh seminary, Qom-Iran Dec 2008