Ayatollah

Banisadr, who returned to Iran with the founder of the Islamic Republic Ayatollah Khomeini after the downfall of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi in 1979, was elected with the support of his mentor Khomeini in 1980.

"Explain how words can be violence." "The Ayatollah wrote down some words saying Salman Rushdie must be killed, and then he was shot."

Tom met the Ayatollah.

P.S. This writer does NOT speak as the Ayatollah of SM. (There isn't one.) If you really want to know more, talk to sadomasochists, or at least do some reading if you're too scared to ask.