The World - News from May 3, 1985
A sister of Iran’s President Ali Khamenei surfaced in the enemy capital of Baghdad along with her five children, joining her husband in exile. Badri Hussein Khamenei told a news conference arranged by Iraq’s Ministry of Culture and Information that she and her children, ages 4 to 22, had to flee illegally from Iran when her brother refused her pleas for passports. Her husband, Sheik Ali Tehrani, an opponent of Iran’s supreme leader, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, was granted asylum in Iraq in March, 1984.
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