Suspicious Death of Seyyed Ahmad Khomeini and the Silence of the Regime
Suspicious Death of Seyyed Ahmad Khomeini and the Silence of the Regime
The suspicious death of Seyyed Ahmad Khomeini, much like the tragic bus accident that claimed the lives of many writers, the deaths of Armenian Church leaders, Dr. Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou, and numerous other mysterious deaths during Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani’s presidency, cannot be overlooked. Ignoring these events means sacrificing the national interests of Iran and its people.
In October and December 1994, Seyyed Ahmad Khomeini openly criticized the deteriorating economic conditions affecting low-income people and the inflation that had worsened after the death of his father, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. According to Mr. Sh.F., who worked in the Presidential Office at that time, the Ministry of Intelligence began monitoring Seyyed Ahmad’s movements after these speeches. Suddenly, it was announced that he had suffered a heart attack. He passed away at age 49 in late December, just five days after his last critical speech.
One of the hospital doctors later revealed that his death was declared only after three days. It appears that, due to the presence of foreign experts in Iran at the time, who were there to oversee certain projects, his death was concealed to prevent unrest and turmoil in the country.
This suggests that after Ayatollah Khomeini’s passing, the Iranian government viewed popular dissent as a serious threat and has since hidden many truths and covert assassinations to keep the public silent. Today, as Iranians rise up, we must be concerned because the regime still has the capacity to quell protests by kidnapping and assassinating hundreds of prominent figures.
Excerpts from Seyyed Ahmad Khomeini’s Published Speech in the “Omid” Newspaper
(Sunday, March 12, 1995 , Issue No. 214)
“We are now in the sixteenth year of the Islamic Revolution, yet some officials, even in institutions established after the revolution, still blame their administrative failures and problems on the previous regime, the Pahlavi dictatorship!
Some shift all blame to the global arrogance, America, and Zionists to shirk responsibility. While the sabotage and hostility of enemies are undeniable, the spread of administrative corruption and bribery stems from ourselves.
Poor decisions about the country’s foreign currency reserves were made internally. For example, Dr. Kashan (Haj Asghar Aghafakhriyeh!), who was deputy of the Central Bank’s currency department, opened the treasury and handed out $5,000 daily to smugglers, dealers, and thugs. Was this a plot by America or a reckless decision by himself? Didn’t he have a superior who should have stopped him?
Billions of Rials of public money are spent on constructing flyover bridges, only for tons of concrete and steel to fall on pedestrians and claim lives. Was this negligence a conspiracy by America?
Repeated crashes of civilian and military planes reveal severe managerial weakness, yet some officials continue to blame unknown forces and imaginary global arrogance. Others claim that we have nothing to sell to America and procure our needs excellently from European and Japanese countries.
If America’s economic sanctions were effective, Cuba would have been annihilated after over four decades of blockade. So why does Cuba still stand?
Did America tell us to run around the world, borrowing billions from various countries and plunging our nation into foreign debt? Newspapers in our country repeatedly warned about the dangers of external debt and the fate of indebted countries like Brazil and Mexico, but officials denied ever taking loans.
Now, debts of 35 to 40 billion dollars are being discussed, yet nobody answers for it.”
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