In a letter, Seyyed Ruhollah Khomeini emphasized to Seyyed Hossein not to get involved in these political games and to study: “In addition to the advice of an old father, I give you a shari’a order not to get involved in these political games, and it is a shari’a obligation that you avoid these encounters.” I order you to return to Qom Seminary and study Islamic and human sciences with effort.” Opposition to the system of the Islamic Republic of He is an opponent of the government of the Islamic Republic.
He has described current system as a “dictatorship of clerics”, arguing that it betrays both Islam’s ethical principles and the revolution’s original promise of freedom. In interviews conducted from exile in Iraq and during trips abroad, Hussein Khomeini has called for political pluralism, freedom of expression, and even separation of religion and state. His outspoken stance places him at odds with the ruling establishment and even with some of his own relatives, who remain within political system.
