The Imam had special affection for the children of martyrs. When he saw them on the television screen he would say: “How fortunate are their fathers for having treaded the path of a hundred years in a single night. It is not known how we are going to die.”
Name of the narrator: Fatemeh Tabatabaie
Title of the Book: Impressions and Memoirs about Imam Khomeini's Practical Behaviour, vol. 1, chapter two, page 201