Iron Sheik’s ’80s contemporary Ravishing ... Sheik’s chic faded with Khomeini’s; the Ayatollah died in 1989. When Saddam Hussein became TV news’ new heel of choice, Vaziri took the ...

Brad Balukjian, a gangly, socially awkward elementary schooler, loved the Iron Sheik, a villainous character known to wave an Ayatollah Khomeini flag while screaming “Death to America” at matches.

Slotnik The Iron ... of the Sheik’s infamy, and in the wake of the Iran hostage crisis in 1979, he often stomped into the ring waving an Iranian flag emblazoned with the face of Ayatollah ...

so I remember the Iran hostage crisis and the Ayatollah Khomeini, and, you know, that was a part of my childhood. So when, you know, Iron Sheik came on the scene and lost to Hulk Hogan and later ...

The Iron Sheik, a Hall of Fame wrestler who became ... ring waving an Iranian flag emblazoned with the face of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, then Iran’s supreme leader, to take on stereotypically ...