Mustafa Khomeini was born in Qom on 12 December 1930. He was the eldest son of Ayatollah Khomeini and Khadijeh Saqafi, daughter of a respected cleric, Hajj Mirza Tehrani.He graduated from the Qom Theological Center.Khomeini participated in his father’s movement.He was arrested and imprisoned after the 1963 events and also, after his father’s exile.