Khomeini Recovering; One-Time Successor Returns to Classroom
Iran’s supreme leader, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, is continuing to make a good recovery after an operation last Tuesday and started taking liquid food orally Saturday, the Iranian news agency IRNA said.
It said the 89-year-old leader is “doing perfectly well” after surgery to stop internal bleeding.
Meanwhile, the Ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri, who has been ousted as Khomeini’s designated successor, resumed teaching Saturday at Qom theological college, IRNA said.
The news agency said Montazeri opened his class with prayers for Khomeini’s full recovery.
Khomeini’s son, Ahmed, said in a letter to a newspaper May 16 that Montazeri, a former student of Khomeini, was fired in March because he had indirect contacts with opponents of the government.
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