He is also reported to have born in Kivi, Khalkhal, in the Khalkhal County, homeland (ergo his name). Khalkhali has been described as “a small, rotund man with a pointed beard, kindly smile, and a high-pitched giggle.”Khalkhali was one of Khomeini’s circle of disciples as far back as 1955 and reconstructed the former secret society of Islamic assassins known as the Fadayan-e Islam after its suppression, but was not a well-known figure to the public prior to the Islamic Revolution.
Khalkhali retired to Qom, where he taught Islamic seminarians.He died in 2003, at the age of 77, of cancer and heart disease. At the time of his death, the speaker of Parliament, Mehdi Karoubi, praised the judge’s performance in the early days of the revolution.
