Cleric Sheik Adel Najm al-Saedi, prays in private room where for more than a decade Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini made his ablution before prayers, that leads to the final resting place of Imam Ali, son-in-law of the Prophet on Thursday May, 1, 2003. Twenty-five years after Khomeini left Najaf and led the Islamic Revolution that toppled the Shah and ended 2,500 years of monarchy in Iran, there is very little of his legacy left in Najaf, where he spent much of of his 16-year exile after being expelled by Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi in 1964.(AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)
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