Overview

• Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s grandfather, Syed Ahmed Musavi Hindi, was born in Kintoor village near Barabanki in Uttar Pradesh and retained ‘Hindi’ to honor his Indian heritage
• The single-storey house in Tehran’s Husayniyeh Jamaran area was offered to Khomeini for free by Sayyid Mahdi Imam Jamah but he still paid 1,000 riyals and later refused public funds for decoration
• The residence remains devoid of grandeur in stark contrast to the former Shah’s palaces, underscoring Khomeini’s lifelong rejection of personal luxury funded by the state
• For a seventh consecutive day, Iran and Israel have traded missile strikes, with Iranian missiles hitting Israel’s Soroka Medical Center and Israel targeting areas near Iran’s Khondab nuclear facility
• Tehran has enriched uranium to 60% purity, edging closer to weapons-grade levels and fueling global concern over its nuclear ambitions