He also questioned the entire election system by expressing doubts about the electoral slogans of the reformists. He clearly said that it is the government that determines the winner, not the nation: “The people brought Khatami to office, but he could not use his victory well and fulfill the people’s wishes because he did not have the necessary legal powers.” Regarding Mehdi Karroubi’s reformist slogans in the field of reforming the political structure, fighting corruption, and defending ethnicities, women, and intellectuals, he said: “It is a Persian saying that the house is completely ruined, and the khwaja is thinking about the role of Ivan.
Yet, his outspoken opposition to clerical rule and his calls for freedom, democracy, and reform have made him a dissident figure — a Khomeini who turned against the revolution his grandfather created. Hussein Khomeini was born into the highest echelon of Iran’s religious elite. His father, Mostafa Khomeini, was Ayatollah Khomeini’s first son and closest companion during his years of exile in Najaf, Iraq. His mother, Masoumeh Haeri Yazdi, was the daughter of Grand Ayatollah Morteza Haeri Yazdi, linking him to another prestigious clerical family.
