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Iran protesters set fire to Khomeini’s home

An image grab from a video posted online on Thursday 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)


Protesters in Iran have set fire to 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.

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