The ceremony kicked off at 8:00 a.m. local time (4:30 GMT) with the presence of Imam Khomeini’s devotees at his mausoleum in southern Tehran.
Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei will deliver a speech at the event.
Imam Khomeini was a Muslim cleric and Marja, as well as the political leader of the 1979 Islamic Revolution of Iran, which overthrew Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran. After the Revolution, he became the Leader of Iran, the paramount figure in the political system of the new Islamic Republic, until his passing.
Imam Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Revolution of Iran, passed away on June 3, 1989. He founded the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979 with massive support from Iranians.
Every year, a large number of people and officials gather at Imam Khomeini’s shrine in the south of Tehran for a commemoration ceremony. Millions of Iranians from around the country travel, some on foot, to pay tribute to the late architect of the Revolution.
On the first anniversary of the demise of Imam Khomeini, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in a message said, “Imam Khomeini is an ever-living truth. His name is the flag of this Revolution, his path is the path of this Revolution, and his goals are the goals of this Revolution.”
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