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Hassan Khomeini | |
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حسن خمينی | |
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Spouse | Neda Bojnourdi |
Children | 4 |
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Ahmad Khomeini Fatemeh Tabatabai |
Website | Official website |
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Sayyid Hassan Khomeini ( Persian: سيد حسن خمينی; born 23 July 1972) is an Iranian cleric. [1] He has been called "the most prominent" grandchild of Ruhollah Khomeini, who had 15 grandchildren in total, [2] and the one "who many think could have a promising political future". [1] [3]
Hassan Khomeini is a grandson of the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ruhollah Khomeini. [4] He is the son of Ahmad Khomeini and Fatemeh Tabatabai. [5] He has four children. [6]
Hassan Khomeini became a cleric in 1993. [3] He was appointed caretaker of the Mausoleum of Khomeini in 1995 where his grandfather and father are buried, [2] [3] and has had official meetings with officials such as Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah. [7] He also teaches in the holy city of Qom, and has published his first book on Islamic sects.
He has been described as having "expressed frustration with some policies of a regime dominated by fundamentalists", such as former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. [1] In an interview in February 2008, Khomeini spoke out against military interference in politics. [8] Soon after, in what some observers believe may have been retaliation, [1] [2] an article in a publication tied to President Ahmadinejad accused him of corruption, [2] "claiming that he drove a BMW, backed rich politicians and was indifferent to the suffering of the poor". [1]
This was "the first time in the history of the Islamic Republic" that one of Khomeini's offspring was "publicly insulted", according to the Iranian daily newspaper Kargozaran. [2] Khomeini met with reformers before the 2009 election [1] and met with defeated presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi and "supported his call to cancel the election results". [2]
On 9 December 2015, he announced that he would enter politics and run for the Assembly of Experts in the 2016 election. [9] [10] His nomination was rejected by the Guardian Council on 10 February 2016. [11]
In June 2020, Iranian media speculated that he would be a presidential candidate in the 2021 election, [11] although he declined to stand on the advice of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.[ citation needed]
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