Videos showing the Islamic Republic founder’s ancestral home set ablaze have been widely circulated on social media.
Videos showing the ancestral home of the late founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini set ablaze have been widely circulated on social media.
Activists claim the house – which has been a museum for the past 30 years – was set on fire by protesters but the semi-official Tasnim news agency denies this.
“The information is false. The doors of the house of the late founder of the great revolution are open to the public,” Tasnim’s cable added.
Videos on social media show dozens of people cheering, while a house can be seen burning.
BREAKING:
Protesters have burned down the house in which Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of Iran’s Islamic Islamist regime, was born in.
The house, in the city of Khomein, has been a museum for the past 30 years.
The protests are increasing in strength. pic.twitter.com/EIezQ3LQYS
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) November 18, 2022
Activist network 1500Tasvir reported that the incident occurred on Thursday afternoon in Khomeini’s hometown of Khomein, which is south of the capital Tehran.
This is Khomeini who was their everything.
Protestors in Iran torched the ancestral home (now a museum) of Ayatollah Khomeini, the father of the 1979 revolution, in the town of Khomein.#مهسا_امینی #زن_زندگی_آزادی #Mahsa_Amini‌ #Woman_Life_Freedom #IranRevolution2022 #انقلاب۱۴۰۱ pic.twitter.com/myyd3tt4C4— برای یران (@ManBarayeIran) November 18, 2022
Reuters was unable to independently determine when the videos were shot but only the location.
Nationwide protests have spread across Iran since September 16, following the death of a young Iranian woman of Kurdish origin, Mahsha Amini, who was detained by the morality police for not wearing her hijab properly.
Ayatollah Ruhollah Mousavi Khomeini was the religious and political leader of Iran from 1979 to 1989. He was one of the driving forces behind the 1979 Iranian Revolution, which overthrew the previous regime and the country’s king (shah), Mohammad Reza Pahlavi , was forced out of Iran.
Khomeini turned Iran into a theocratic Islamic state and put power in the hands of the clergy.
Arrested by the Pahlavi dynasty in 1963 he was arrested and exiled the following year, fleeing to Iraq
Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein forced Khomeini to flee the country in 1978, at which time he settled in Paris.
Khomeini died in 1989.
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