Khomeini’s Grandson Calls for US to Overthrow Iran
Charles Johnson
Mon Jun 19, 2006 at 12:02 pm PDT • Views: 271
The grandson of the Ayatollah Khomeini has called for the US to intervene in Iran. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
The grandson of Ayatollah Khomeini, the inspiration of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, has broken a three-year silence to back the United States military to overthrow the country’s clerical regime.
Hossein Khomeini’s call is all the more startling as he made it from Qom, the spiritual home of Iran’s Shia strand of Islam, during an interview to mark the 17th anniversary of the ayatollah’s death.
“My grandfather’s revolution has devoured its children and has strayed from its course,” he told Al-Arabiya, an Arabic-language television station. “I lived through the revolution and it called for freedom and democracy - but it has persecuted its leaders.”
The Islamic revolution called for “freedom and democracy?” They picked an odd way to demonstrate it—by kidnapping and holding US embassy personnel hostage for more than a year.
Hard to say how genuine this expression of support really is; Hossein Khomeini could be just jockeying for political position. But it’s very curious indeed.
Frank says: