Tag: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini

TEHRAN : Iranian protesters have set fire to the ancestral home of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, founder of the Islamic Republic. Images posted on social media show part of the structure in the city of Khomein being set ablaze, the BBC reported. News agencies have verified the videos’ location, but regional authorities denied there had been an arson attack. Khomeini is said to have been born in the house, which is now a museum that commemorates his life, the BBC reported. Khomeini was the leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution in 1979, which deposed the...