00:02The India Connection
00:03In the 1980s, Khomeini had travelled through parts of India, visiting Karnataka and Jammu in Kashmir.
00:09In 2012, during then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Tehran, Khomeini spoke about his trip to India.
00:15He once publicly praised Jawaharlal Nehru's book, Glimpses of World History.
00:19The hand he lost.
00:20On June 27, 1981, a bomb hidden inside a tape recorder exploded during a political meeting at Tehran's Abu Bazar
00:27Mosque.
00:28Ali Khomeini was standing just a few feet away when the device detonated.
00:31The blast severely injured him, permanently paralysing his right arm, the poet who banned music.
00:37Here's the contradiction at the heart of Ali Khomeini.
00:39He loved Persian classical music.
00:41He once wrote poetry under the pen name Ammar.
00:44But after becoming Iran's supreme leader in 1989, he chose to stand behind the state's strict restrictions on music and
00:50art.
00:51The Librarian
00:51Before the revolution, he was a teacher.
00:53Khomeini ran study circles in Mashhad and spent years translating Arabic texts into Persian.
00:59He also translated the works of Egyptian thinker Saeed Qutub, whose writings became prominent pieces of Islamic literature.
01:05The life he kept private.
01:06Khomeini married Mansoor Bahgarzadeh in 1965 in Mashhad.
01:11She came from a conservative family and stayed away from public life.
01:14The couple had six children, four sons and two daughters.
01:18Long.
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