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Ruhollah Khomeini. Khadijeh Saqafi. Sayyid Mostafa Khomeini (Persian: سید مصطفی خمینی; 12 December 1930 – 23 October 1977) was an Iranian cleric and the eldest son of Ayatollah Khomeini. He died before the Iranian Revolution.
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, which ...
Khomeinis. The Khomeini family (Persian: خاندان خمینی, romanized: Khumaynī, IPA: [xomejˈniː]), also transliterated as Khomeyni, is an Iranian religious Shia family that migrated from Nishapur, to Awadh in the 18th-century, and then finally settling in Khomeyn in the early 19th-century. [1][2][3][4][5][6] They claim descent from ...
Khamenei is married to Mansoureh Khojasteh Bagherzadeh, with whom he has six children; four sons (Mostafa, Mojtaba, Masoud, and Meysam) and two daughters (Boshra and Hoda). [294] One of his sons, Mojtaba, married a daughter of Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel. [295] His eldest son, Mostafa, is married to a daughter of Azizollah Khoshvaght. [296]
Khomeinism, also transliterated Khumaynism, refers to the religious and political ideas of the leader of the 1979 Iranian Islamic Revolution, Ruhollah Khomeini. In addition, Khomeinism may also refer to the ideology of the clerical class which has ruled the Islamic Republic of Iran, founded by Khomeini. It can also be used to refer to the ...
Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran, is the most powerful member of the Khamenei family. The Khamenei family (Persian: خاندان خامنهای) or Khamenei dynasty[1] is among the Iranian Azeri Sayyid families [2][3][4] who claim to be descendants of the fourth Imam of Shia Islam, Ali ibn Husayn Zayn al-Abidin (Persian/ Arabic ...
The Supreme Leader of Iran is elected by the Assembly of Experts (مجلس خبرگان, Majles-e Khobregan), which is also the only government body in charge of choosing and dismissing Supreme Leaders of Iran. [ 22 ] The Supreme Leader is the commander-in-chief of the armed forces and the provisional[citation needed] head of the three branches ...
Trial of Hamid Nouri. Starting on 19 July 1988 and continuing for approximately five months, a series of mass executions of Iranian political prisoners ordered by Ayatollah Khomeini and carried out by Iranian officials took place across Iran. [8][9][10][11][12][13] Many prisoners were also tortured. [14][15][16] The killings took place in at ...