Hassan Khomeini

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Sayyid Hassan Khomeini
حسن خمينی
Khomeini in 2018
Born	(1972-07-23) 23 July 1972 (age 52) Qom, Imperial State of Iran
Spouse	Neda Bojnourdi
Children	4
Parent(s)	Ahmad Khomeini Fatemeh Tabatabai
Website	Official website
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Sayyid Hassan Khomeini (Persian: سيد حسن خمينی; born 23 July 1972) is an Iranian cleric.^[1] He has been called "the most prominent" grandchild of Ruhollah Khomeini, who had 15 grandchildren in total,^[2] and the one "who many think could have a promising political future".^[1][3]

Hassan Khomeini is a grandson of the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ruhollah Khomeini.^[4] He is the son of Ahmad Khomeini and Fatemeh Tabatabai.^[5] He has four children.^[6]

Hassan Khomeini became a cleric in 1993.^[3] He was appointed caretaker of the Mausoleum of Khomeini in 1995 where his grandfather and father are buried,^[2][3] and has had official meetings with officials such as Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah.^[7] He also teaches in the holy city of Qom, and has published his first book on Islamic sects.

He has been described as having "expressed frustration with some policies of a regime dominated by fundamentalists", such as former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.^[1] In an interview in February 2008, Khomeini spoke out against military interference in politics.^[8] Soon after, in what some observers believe may have been retaliation,^[1][2] an article in a publication tied to President Ahmadinejad accused him of corruption,^[2] "claiming that he drove a BMW, backed rich politicians and was indifferent to the suffering of the poor".^[1]

This was "the first time in the history of the Islamic Republic" that one of Khomeini's offspring was "publicly insulted", according to the Iranian daily newspaper Kargozaran.^[2] Khomeini met with reformers before the 2009 election^[1] and met with defeated presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi and "supported his call to cancel the election results".^[2]

On 9 December 2015, he announced that he would enter politics and run for the Assembly of Experts in the 2016 election.^[9][10] His nomination was rejected by the Guardian Council on 10 February 2016.^[11]

In June 2020, Iranian media speculated that he would be a presidential candidate in the 2021 election,^[11] although he declined to stand on the advice of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.^{[citation needed]}

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