Background
Hassan Khomeini is the grandson of the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ruhollah Khomeini. He is the son of Ahmad Khomeini and Fatemeh Tabatabai.
Hassan Khomeini is the grandson of the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ruhollah Khomeini. He is the son of Ahmad Khomeini and Fatemeh Tabatabai.
Of Khomeini"s 15 grandchildren he has been called "the most prominent" and the one "who many think could have a promising political future."
he has 4 children. Hassan Khomeini became a cleric in 1993. He is also teaching in the holy city of Qom, and has published his first book on Islamic sections
He has been described as having "expressed frustration with some policies of a regime dominated by fundamentalists," such as former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
In an interview in February 2008, Hassan spoke out against military interference in politics. Soon after, in what some observers believe may have been retaliation, an article in a publication tied to President Ahmadinejad accused him of corruption, "claiming that he drove a Bayerische Motoren Werke, backed rich politicians and was indifferent to the suffering of the poor."
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.
Hassan met with reformers before the 2009 election and met with defeated presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi and "supported his call to cancel the election results."
On 9 December 2015, he announced that he will enter the politics and will be run for Assembly of Experts in the 2016 election. His nomination was rejected by Guardian Council on 10 February 2016.