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Mostafa Khomeini participated in his father's movement. [1] He was arrested and imprisoned after the 1963 events and also, after his father's exile. [3] On 3 January 1965, he joined his father in Bursa, Turkey, where he was in exile. [3] Then he lived with his family in Najaf, Iraq, from October 1965.
Hussain Khomeini (born 1959) is the son of Mostafa Khomeini, he is a cleric, and is considered a liberal secularist and an outspoken critic of the theocratic government in Iran. Hassan Khomeini (born 1972) is the son of Ahmad Khomeini, he is a cleric and was appointed caretaker of the Mausoleum of Khomeini in 1995 where his grandfather and ...
The Iranian Revolution ( Persian: انقلاب ایران, Enqelâb-e Irân [ʔeɴɢeˌlɒːbe ʔiːɾɒːn] ), also known as the 1979 Revolution and the Islamic Revolution ( انقلاب اسلامی, Enqelâb-e Eslâmī ), [4] was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1979.
Farideh Mostafavi Khomeini. Sayyida Farideh Mostafavi Khomeini ( Persian: فریده مصطفوی خمینی; born 1943) is an Iranian female religious scholar and Ayatollah Khomeini 's youngest daughter. [1] Farideh Mostafavi studied Islamic studies at home as well as in several maktabs of Qom in the 1970s. Remarkably, she began her formal ...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — His image is on bank notes and in school textbooks in Iran, often as a black-and-white embodiment of the 1979 Islamic Revolution that swept aside the country's shah and ...
Children. 7, including Mostafa, Zahra, Farideh, and Ahmad. Khadijeh Saqafi ( Persian: خدیجه ثقفی ; 1915/1916 – 21 March 2009) was an Iranian revolutionary and the wife of Ruhollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran and figurehead of the Iranian Revolution. In Iran, she was known as "the mother of the Islamic revolution".
v. t. e. Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini [b] (17 May 1900 or 24 September 1902 [a] – 3 June 1989) was an Iranian Islamic revolutionary, politician, and religious leader who served as the first Supreme Leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989. He was the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the main leader of the Iranian Revolution ...
In Tehran the special commission for the executions had 16 members representing the various authorities of the Islamic government—Imam Khomeini himself, the president, the chief prosecutor, the Revolutionary Tribunals, the ministries of Justice and Intelligence, and the administration of Evin and Gohar Dasht, the two prisons in the Tehran ...