Today people from different walks of life are struggling against the authoritarian regimes in Middle East and North Africa, at the risk of being killed every day.
Imam Khomeini's will, 30 pages long, the main part of which is dated February 15, 1983. Here are excepts from it:
Historical personalities usually become famous after their death, for it is only with the passage of time that the realities about them are known.
Imam Khomeini fought oppression more than anything else. It were the words that came out of his mouth that shattered the regime of oppressors.
We have yet to explore and discover the great spiritual and intellectual dimensions that lie in the political thought and Ijtihad of the late Imam Khomeini.
The Islamic Revolution in Iran caught the world by surprise: even the secret service of east and west were baffled by the extraordinary course of events which suddenly overwhelmed the country.
The passing away of Imam Khomeini a year ago was a trauma from which most of us have yet to recover.