Ayatollah Khomeini returns to homeland

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At 9:27 am on February 1st 1979 Khomeini arrived in Iran and received a welcome from millions of homelands. This event is celebrated as a public holiday in homeland. After delivering a speech at the Mehrabad International Airport, he traveled to the Behesht-e Zahra cemetery, where many people who were killed during the revolution were buried.

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