Iranian clerical students listen to their professor during a lesson in a classroom of the Feiziyeh religious school in Iran's clerical capital Qom, 120 kms south of Tehran. 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 powered. The ideological epicenter of the revolution is Qom's Feiziyeh Theological School, Iran-Qom Dec 2008