1. Sayyid Ahmad Khomeini was the younger son of Ruhollah Khomeini and father of Hassan Khomeini.
20 Facts About Ahmad Khomeini
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Ahmad Khomeini was the "right-hand" of his father before, during and after the Iranian Revolution.
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Ahmad Khomeini was a link between Ruhollah Khomeini and officials and people.
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Ahmad Khomeini died of heart disease and was buried next to his father.
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Ahmad Khomeini was born in Qom on 15 March 1946, where he did his primary and secondary education in Owhadi and Hakin Nezami school, respectively and then started seminary studies and accomplished primary and secondary hawza courses.
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Ahmad Khomeini secretly joined his father, Ruhollah Khomeini, after his father was exiled to Najaf.
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Ahmad Khomeini helped coordinate affairs during and after the Iranian Revolution, in Khomeini's office in Najaf, Paris and subsequent to the ayatollah's return to Iran in February 1979.
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Ahmad Khomeini's letters containing the issues he had encountered is available.
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Ahmad Khomeini was among the officials went through Fatah training.
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Ahmad Khomeini served as his father's chief of staff until his father's death in 1989.
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Ahmad Khomeini was a member of Iran's Supreme National Security Council without assuming any executive position.
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Ahmad Khomeini was a member of Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution by Ali Khamenei's official order.
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Ahmad Khomeini became the overseer of the Mausoleum of Khomeini.
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Ahmad Khomeini spoke against America, Israel and what he called "exploitative Iranian capitalists," on several occasions.
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Ahmad Khomeini used to act as counsel for his father and other high-ranking officials.
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Ahmad Khomeini's wife was Fatemeh Soltani Tabatabai, daughter of Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Bagher Soltani Tabatabai Borujerdi, niece of Imam Musa Sadr, the Shia religious leader of Lebanon.
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Ahmad Khomeini was the sister of Sadegh and Morteza Tabatabai.
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Ahmad Khomeini died five days later, on 17 March 1995, hours after being connected to life support machinery.
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Ahmad Khomeini is entombed next to his father in a grand shrine south of Tehran, where his son, Hassan Khomeini, is the superintendent.
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However, non-government sources claim that Ahmad Khomeini was indeed killed after falling foul of the supreme leader revolution, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, and the then president, Hashemi Rafsanjani.