By AFP 18 November 2022 | 11:11 am Protesters in Iran have set on fire the ancestral home of the Islamic republic’s founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini two months into the anti-regime protest movement, images showed on Friday. This image grab from a UGC video posted on November 17, 2022, reportedly shows Iranian protesters starting a fire at the family home of the founder of the Islamic republic Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, now a museum, in the central Iranian city of Khomein. (Photo by – / ESN / AFP) / Israel OUT Protesters in Iran have set on fire the ancestral home of the Islamic republic’s founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini two months into the anti-regime protest movement, images showed on Friday. The house in the city of Khomein in the western Markazi province was shown ablaze late Thursday with crowds of jubilant protesters marching past, according to images posted on social media, verified by AFP. Khomeini is said to have been born at the house in the town of Khomein — from where his surname derives — at the turn of the century. He became a cleric deeply critical of the US-backed shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, moved into exile but then returned in triumph from France in 1979 to lead the Islamic revolution. Khomeini died in 1989 but remains the subject of adulation by the clerical leadership under successor Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The house was later turned into a museum commemorating Khomeini. It was not immediately clear what damaged it sustained. The protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, who had been arrested by the morality police, pose the biggest challenge from the street to Iran’s leaders since the 1979 revolution. They were fuelled by anger over the obligatory headscarf for women imposed by Khomeini but have turned into a movement calling for an end to the Islamic republic itself. Images of Khomeini have on occasion been torched or defaced by protesters, in taboo-breaking acts against a figure whose death is still marked each June with a holiday for mourning. Latest 6 mins ago Manchester United said on Friday the club has “initiated appropriate steps” following an explosive interview by Cristiano Ronaldo that left his future at Old Trafford in doubt. 25 mins ago The Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA) in Kebbi has completed 14 road projects appropriated to the state under the 2021 capital appropriation and social maintenance projects. 35 mins ago The Benue Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), on Friday, arraigned one Robert Ahen,34, before a Makurdi Chief Magistrates’ Court for alleged criminal conspiracy and other offences. 36 mins ago Private and public sector players championing the cause of vulnerable groups in Nigeria have advocated for an increased interface for a robust financial empowerment of Nigerian women and other vulnerable groups. Gender advisor and Lead consultant at Albright Stonebridge Group, Rinmicit Aboki, said that a strong interface among stakeholders is critical to cascading policy implementation… 41 mins ago Priscilla Sitieni, the world’s oldest primary school student, who inspired a French film and received UNESCO recognition, died in Kenya at the age of 99, according to local media.
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