Mostafa Khomeini (1930 – 1977) was a cleric and the eldest son of Ayatollah Khomeini. He died before the Revolution.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.