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Hassan Khomeini between his grandfather Ruhollah and father Ahmad. His cousin Ali Eshraghi is on the left side
He spent his childhood alternately in Qom and Najaf,with his maternal grandfather,Muhammad Baqir Sultani Tabatabai,and his paternal grandfather,Ruhollah Khomeini,the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran.[1] He is the son of Ahmad Khomeini and Fatemeh Tabatabai.[2]
After his seminary studies from 1989-1993,Hassan Khomeini became a cleric.[4]
In 1995,following the death of Ahmad Khomeini,he was appointed custodian of the Mausoleum of Khomeini where his grandfather and father are buried.[5][4] He has had official meetings with officials such as Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah.[6] He also taught 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.[7] 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,[7][5] an article in a publication tied to President Ahmadinejad accused him of corruption,[5] "claiming that he drove a BMW,backed rich politicians and was indifferent to the suffering of the poor".[7] 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.[5] Khomeini met with reformers before the 2009 election[7] and met with defeated presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi and "supported his call to cancel the election results".[5]
On May 31,2023,a journalist was assaulted by Hassan Khomeini's bodyguards while trying to photograph him alongside Mohammad Khatami. The incident happened in the headquarters of Ettela'at in Tehran,during an event marking the first anniversary of the death of the institute’s director Mahmoud Doaei[fa]. The bodyguards punched,kicked,and insulted the journalist,while Khomeini's security chief examined his phone. The Iranian Labour News Agency condemned the bodyguards for attacking journalism.[12] After the incident became viral,Khomeini apologized to the journalist.[13]
Hassan Khomeini criticized Donald Trump for disregarding human rights concerns,warning the people against a potential fall of the theocratic regime in January 2026,attributing the unrest to "ISIS-like terrorism" during the protests while praising Ayatollah Khamenei's courage and wisdom in handling the "engineered" instability hostile countries allegedly sought to cause.[14][15]
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