Ahmad Khomeini

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Ahmad Chomeini with his son Yassir, recorded in France

Ahmad Chomeini ( Persian أحمد خمینی; * 1943 or 1945 in Qom ; † March 17, 1995 in Tehran ), the younger son of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini , was an Iranian Shiite cleric with the rank of Hodschatoleslam . His wife is Fatemeh Tabatabai Soltani, daughter of Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Bagher Tabatabai Soltani Borudscherdi and sister of Sadegh Tabatabai .

Life

Ahmad Khomeini was very close to his father. During and after the Islamic Revolution of 1979, he worked in Khomeini's office in Paris and Iran as chief of staff until his death in 1989.

After losing the power struggle over the question of his father's successor as leader of the country against Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani , he became administrator of the Khomeini mausoleum and a member of the Iranian Security Council .

Ahmad Chomeini died on March 17, 1995 at the age of 49 in a Tehran hospital after suffering a heart attack on March 12 .

Rumors about the cause of death

Even during the two days of national mourning, rumors surfaced that his death had no natural cause, and after a blunt speech in which he criticized the regime, it was no accident. One month after Ahmad Khomeini's death, Rafsanjani was charged with commissioning Ahmad Khomeini's death. It was spread that Ahmad Chomeini died of cyanide poisoning. According to former Ansare Hezbollah member Amir Farschad Ebrahimi , intelligence official Said Emami confessed that Khomeini had been eliminated by a group of high-level officials after Ahmad Khomeini fell out with Ali Khamene'i . This group allegedly included the former secret service ministers Gholamhossein Mohseni-Eschei (2005–2009) and Ali Fallahian (1989–1997), Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi and Asadollah Badamchian .

Ahmad Khomeini is buried next to his father in a large shrine south of Tehran that his son Hassan Khomeini manages. Ahmad Khomeini left two other sons, Yassir and Ali Khomeini.

Web links

Commons : Ahmad Chomeini  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ahmad Khomeini in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  2. ↑ Ahmad Khomeini, Son Of Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini . Chicago Tribune, March 20, 1995
  3. ↑ Eric Pace: Ahmed Khomeini Is Dead; Son of Ayatollah Khomeini . The New York Times, March 18, 1995
  4. ↑ Ali Reza Eshraghi: Khamenei vs. Khomeini . The New Republic, August 20, 2009
  5. ^ Robert Fisk: Love the revolution, shame about reality . The Independent, June 5, 1995
personal data
SURNAME Khomeini, Ahmad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES أحمد خمینی (Persian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian Shiite clergyman with the rank of Hodschatoleslam
DATE OF BIRTH 1943 or 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Qom
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1995
Place of death Tehran