Iran Protests: As anti-government demonstrations over the death of Mahsa Amini continue to boil and enter their second month, protesters in Iran set fire to the ancestral home of Iran’s former supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini, according to news agency. Social media posts and videos show the founder of the Islamic Republic’s residence, which has been converted into a museum, on fire.
State media refuted the activists’ claim that protesters set the house on fire. What harm the fire did, has not yet been determined.
Numerous individuals can be seen cheering in social media footage posted by Khomein, and groups of ecstatic protestors can be seen moving past as the fire started, according to news organisations.
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Ayatollah Khomeini, the mastermind of Iran’s Islamic revolution in 1979
It is believed that Ayatollah Khomeini, the mastermind of Iran’s Islamic revolution in 1979, was born there. The residence is now a museum dedicated to his life. As a preacher, Khomeini denounced the US-backed Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. He went into exile but later triumphantly came back from France to lead the Islamic revolution.
He withdrew into exile, becoming a fiercely critical preacher of the US-supported shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, and then triumphantly returned from France in 1979 to lead the Islamic revolution.
According to activist network 1500Tasvir, the event took place on Thursday night in Khomein, south of the Iranian capital Tehran, the town where Khomeini was born.
The report is false, according to Tasnim. “The public is welcome to enter the doors of the late founder of the great revolution.”
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Images of Khomeini have already been vandalised or set on fire by protesters.
The incident occurs at a time when anti-hijab demonstrations have roiled Iran since the murder of Mahsa Amini, 22, who passed away in the morality police’s custody for violating the country’s strict dress code. Mahsa Amini’s death spurred the protests. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the successor to Ayatollah Khomeini, is under intense pressure as a result of the protestors’ demands for an end to the country’s strict clerical rule. The protests have now become a significant problem for the administration.
One of the most recent episodes in a string of statewide protests against his successor, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and his administration is the fire at his ancestral home.
Human rights organisations report that new protests have broken out in numerous Iranian cities and villages and that more than 300 people have already died as a result of the protests.
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