Culture and Personal Stories
25 min
Poet, Ascetic, Tyrant. Who Was Khomeini Behind Closed Doors
He refused the shah's palaces and settled in a room without air conditioning. He mended his own socks. In 60 years of marriage, he never once asked his wife to bring him a glass of water and never started eating until she sat at the table. He secretly wrote Sufi poems about wine and taverns on scraps of newspaper and was embarrassed by clean paper.