Can the Khomeinis challenge Khamenei?
[ opinion ] The Tehran-based Parsine news Web site recently reported about the possible move of the Khomeini family to the holy city of Najaf in Iraq. According to the report, the Khomeini family has been troubled by the hardliners’ attack during former president Mohammad Khatami’s Ashura sermon. There are two reasons why this was particularly painful for Ayatollah Khomeini’s family. First and foremost, Khatami is related to the Khomeini family. His brother is married to Zahra Eshraghi, one of Khomeini’s grand daughters. The other is that the attack took place in Ayatollah Khomeini’s former neighborhood of Jamaraan, in northern Tehran. The fact that the attackers did not respect the sanctity of the place was doubly painful for the Khomeini family. Even if the move to Najaf does not materialize, one can not ignore the recent assaults against the family of the former Supreme Leader of Iran. There were already reports that the offices of Hojatoleslam Val Moslemin Seyed Hassan Khomeini, th
