The first moments of Ayatollah Khomeini’s arrival to Homeland

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Bakhtiar invited Khomeini back to Iran, with the intention of creating a Vatican-like state in the holy city of Qom, declaring that “We will soon have the honor of welcoming home the Ayatollah Khomeini”. On 1 February 1979 Khomeini returned to Tehran in a chartered Air France Boeing 747.

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