List of Khomeini’s Assets Shows He Owned No Furniture
The Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini owned a plot of land and a house in the religious center of Qom--but no furniture, according to a list of his assets made public Wednesday.
The list, compiled in 1981, was a constitutional requirement for senior Iranian officials, their wives and children, the Islamic Republic News Agency reported. Khomeini died June 3 of a heart attack, 11 days after undergoing surgery to halt internal bleeding.
Khomeini wrote: “I have no furniture. The few items of furniture in Qom and Tehran belong to my wife,” according to the official news agency report, which was monitored in Cyprus.
The revolutionary patriarch said he and two brothers inherited the plot of land in the village of Khomeini, 225 miles south of Tehran, whose name he adopted. He later donated his share of the land to the homeless, IRNA reported.
He also noted in the list of assets that “there are two carpets which do not belong to me or my heirs, which must be given to the needy.”
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