Background
Khomeini was born in Qom on 12 December 1930. He was the eldest son of Ayatollah Khomeini and Khadijeh Saqafi, daughter of a respected cleric, Hajj Mirza Tehrani.
Khomeini was born in Qom on 12 December 1930. He was the eldest son of Ayatollah Khomeini and Khadijeh Saqafi, daughter of a respected cleric, Hajj Mirza Tehrani.
He graduated from the Qom Theological Center.
He died before the 1979 revolution. Khomeini participated in his father"s movement. He was arrested and imprisoned after the 1963 events and also, after his father"s exile.
On 3 January 1965, he joined his father in Bursa, Turkey, where he was in exile.
Then he lived with his family in Najaf, Iraq. The group also included Mohammad Hussein Behesti and Morteza Motahhari.
Khomeini died in Najaf on 23 October 1977. He was buried in Najaf.
His father described Mostafa"s death as one of hidden favors of God.