Sunday will mark 47 years since Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Iran after 14 years of exile.
As excited revolutionaries awaited his plane’s arrival at Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport, the country’s new supreme leader was asked by an accompanying journalist what he felt about finally coming home. “Nothing,” was Khomeini’s cryptic reply.
Today, Iran is at another pivotal moment and, unlike Khomeini’s display of detachment, feelings among the nation’s people are running high indeed. Iranian society is still reeling from the wave of repression that met anti-government protests across the country earlier this month.
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