IMAM KHOMEINI AND THE PRINCIPLE OF REPUBLICANISMImam gave new life to a forgotten principle in Islam, that is, the principle of republicanism and majority rule. Imam called the regime a republic, meaning the rule of the people, and the rule of the majority. He revived this Islamic principle and made it understood to all the short sighted and narrow minded reactionaries, that people were well capable of making their own decisions.