Videos show flames at Khomeini’s home in Tehran

Published November 19, 2022
This image grab from a UGC video posted on November 17, 2022, reportedly shows Iranian protesters starting a fire at the family home of the founder of the Islamic republic Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, now a museum, in the central Iranian city of Khomein. — AFP
This image grab from a UGC video posted on November 17, 2022, reportedly shows Iranian protesters starting a fire at the family home of the founder of the Islamic republic Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, now a museum, in the central Iranian city of Khomein. — AFP

TEHRAN: Video clips showing the ancestral home in Iran of Ayatollah Khomeini, the late founder of the Islamic republic, on fire have been widely shared on social media, with activists saying it was torched by protesters.

Observers verified the location of two video clips using the distinctive arches and buildings that match file images.

The semi-official Tasnim news agency, however, denied Khomeini’s house was set on fire, saying a small number of people had gathered outside the house.

The social media videos show people cheering as a flash of fire is sparked in a building.

Activist network 1500Tasvir said the incident occurred on Thursday evening in Khomeini’s birth town of Khomein, south of the capital Tehran.

The house had been converted into a museum.

“The report is a lie,” said the Tasnim news agency, adding: “The doors of the house of the late founder of the great revolution are open to the public.”

Ayatollah Khomeini died in 1989.

Published in Dawn, November 19th, 2022

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