Grandson of Ayatollah Khomeini ‘leaves Iran to avoid presidential inauguration’

The grandson of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, father of Iran‘s Islamic revolution, is reported to have left the country to avoid attending Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s presidential inauguration. Hassan Khomeini, a supporter of the defeated reformist candidate, Mir Hossein Mousavi, has travelled to an unnamed “neighbouring country” to escape official pressure to be present at next month’s swearing-in ceremony, according to the pro-reformist news website, Salaamnews. His absence would be a blow to the authorities’ hopes of using the hallowed Khomeini family name to confer legitimacy on the event in the face of allegations that Ahmadinejad owes his re-election to fraud. Hassan — a member of the pro-reformist Association of Combatant Clerics — is the most well-known and politically active of Khomeini’s surviving descendants.

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