Ahmad Khomeini
Ahmad Khomeini (1945, Qom - March 17, 1995, Tehran), was the younger son of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
Ahmad Khomeini was close to his father, the leader of the Iranian revolution of 1979. He helped coordinate affairs during and after the Islamic Revolution, in Khomeini's office in Paris and subsequent to the ayatollah's return to Iran in February 1979.[1] He served as his father's chief of staff until his father's death in 1989. Upon failing to succeed his father as the country's leader in a power struggle with Hashemi Rafsanjani, he became the overseer of the Mausoleum of Khomeini and was later named to the Supreme National Security Council.[2]
Khomeini reportedly died of a heart attack in 1995 at the age of 49 Ahmad Khomeini is entombed next to his father in a grand shrine south of Tehran, where his son, Hassan Khomeini, is the superintendent.
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