Iran: 1.5 million people expected at the ceremony marking Imam Khomeini Anniversary departure

Local Editor

Tehran – Nearly 1.5 million people are expected to attend a ceremony on Friday to mark the anniversary of the starting 27 Imam Khomeini.

More than 400 foreign guests will attend the event, to be held in Tehran at the mausoleum of the founder of the Islamic Republic deceased. Participants will renew their fidelity to the ideals of Khomeini and with the leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei and transmit the message to the world that the sublime aspirations of the late Imam will never be forgotten.

Rouhollah Mousavi Khomeini was born in the central Iranian city of Khomein September 24, 1902 into a family of scholars. He led Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution, which culminated in the overthrow of the US-backed monarchy of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Pahlavi was the last monarch of Iran.

Imam Khomeini died June 4, 1989 at the age of 87 years every year in one day, a large number of people and officials, as well as the Imam Khomeini devotees from different countries converge on the mausoleum in the Iranian capital, to pay tribute to the deceased page founder of the Islamic Republic.