In his speech, Ali Khomeini, the grandson of the founder of the Iranian regime, Ruhollah Khomeini, referred to Protests sweeping the country He called for handing over the government to the Iranian people, as he put it.
And the Jamaran website, which is close to the Khomeini family, quoted statements made by Ali Khomeini at a religious ceremony in the Iraqi city of Najaf, where he said: “By God, if we are somehow able to hand over the government in its entirety to the Iranian people, it can be said with certainty that they will implement Islam better than us.” launch”.
‘We are all protesting’
“This people is patient, but they are protesting, we are all protesting,” he continued, defending the nationwide protests in Iran.
“There must be a protest,” Ali Khomeini asserted. “If there is no protest and there is deathly silence, then we should be afraid.”
He continued, “If our officials made a mistake, and people just kept looking, we should have said either that the people died, or that it was Saddam’s rule where no one utters a word.”
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It is noteworthy that Ali Khomeini was born in 1985 in the city of Qom, and he is the youngest grandson of the founding guide of the Iranian regime and is married to the granddaughter of the Shiite cleric Ali al-Sistani, who is the daughter of Jawad al-Shahristani. After the suppression of protests in IranHe said, “There are no deaf ears in the Iranian government to his messages.”
However, Ali Khomeini defended the actions of his grandfather, “Ruhollah Khomeini,” and claimed that his view of “the people and society is the path to progress” and that “all problems will be solved” by following Khomeini’s policies, according to him.
Ali Khomeini has defended his grandfather’s actions before, for example, criticizing the release of an audio file of Ayatollah Montazeri harshly criticizing the mass executions of political prisoners in 1988.
Ali Khomeini announced his support for the protests, while the protesters chanted slogans once morest his grandfather and Khamenei, and demanded the overthrow of the regime in Iran.
An invitation to dialogue
During the protests that swept across the country, Talib Hassan Khomeini, the elder brother of Ali Khomeini, who is the head of the family and the custodian of his grandfather’s grave, called on the Iranian authorities to start a dialogue with different sectors of the Iranian people, but he criticized the demonstrators’ slogans once morest Ali Khamenei and said that insulting him is an obstacle to any a dialogue.
In recent years, the Iranian regime has prevented Hassan Khomeini, who leans toward reformists, from holding government positions.
Years ago, he ran for participation in the Assembly of Experts elections, but the Guardian Council refused to qualify him.