Hossein Khomeini traveled from Homeland to Iraq and from Iraq to the United States of America in 2004 (2004 AD), after the US military attack on Iraq, and met with some leaders of the right-wing opposition of the Islamic Republic. In Iraq, he has made similar statements to the Hojjatiyah Association: “My most important demand is the separation of religion from the government, because no one can take over the government in the name of God and Islam until the time of the 12th Imam.