Zahra mostafavi khomeini
Who succeeded ayatollah khomeini
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Khadijeh Saqafi
Islamic revolutionary and Ruhollah Khomeini's wife (1913–2009)
Khadijeh Saqafi (Persian: خدیجه ثقفی; 1915/1916 – 21 March 2009) was an Iranian revolutionary and the wife of Ruhollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran and figurehead of the Iranian Revolution.
In Iran, she was known as "the mother of the Islamic revolution".[1]
Early life
Saqafi was born in 1915 or 1916 in Tehran, the daughter of Hajj Mirza Mohammad Thaqafi-e Tehrani, a respected cleric and merchant.[3]
Marriage and later years
Saqafi became the child bride of 29-year-old Ruhollah Khomeini in 1929[3][4] or 1931.[2] They had seven children together, although only five survived childhood.[4] The family resided in Qom until Khomeini's exile in 1964.[5] Their son Mostafa died in Iraq in 1977 while in exile, while their second son Ahmad died of cardiac arrest in 1995.[2]
Throughout
