Today is the anniversary of Ayatollah Khomeini's return to Iran in 1979. A historic event that proved to be a turning point in our contemporary history. Like it or not, this was a day that changed all we were and all that we were yet to become.
Reading all sorts of ideas and commentaries, by those who believe Khomeini's return to be the worst plague that has ever struck our homeland against the ones who would still revere the long passed leader as an "Imam". (somehow an equal to the Christian Saints) I ended up with a moving epiphany.
Hassan Khomeini, the Ayatollah 's grandson, has posted a photograph of a little girl, presumably his own daughter, named Fereshteh Khomeini. On the other front, Reza Pahlavi, Shah's son and the first in line to the Peacock Throne, has also posted several photos of his youngest daughter, Farah, named after Empress Farah Pahlavi, Reza's mother, Hence: Farah Pahlavi II.
Look at their faces for yourself. Both kids are cute (as all kids their age are), both are innocent and both could live in a democratic and civilized Iran free from the faults of their past generations. This should be our goal to make that happen, to recreate our motherland and let her embrace all her children. Only that way "Iran will never die".
