TEHRAN -- An online seminar titled “Great Imam Khomeini (RA): A Model of Change in Islamic World” is planned to be held on Tuesday.
The International Quran News Agency (IQNA) will organize the webinar ahead of the 36th demise anniversary of the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
It will start at 9 a.m. local time (5:30 AM GMT) and can be watched online at aparat.com/iqnanews/live.
Head of the International Qur’an and Propagation Center of the Islamic Culture and Relations Organization Mostafa Husseini Neyshabouri will address the webinar, speaking on the theme “Imam Khomeini (RA); Contemporary World’s Great Reformer”.
Also speaking will be scholar and thinkers from Bahrain, Iraq and Lebanon.
The theme of Bahraini cleric Sheikh Abdullah Daqqaq’s speech will be “Hajj and Development of the Muslim World’s Ideological Movement in Imam Khomeini’s (RA) Thoughts”.
Jumaa Al-Otwani, director of the  “Horizon” Center for Political Studies and Analysis in Baghdad, will deliver a video lecture on “Imam Khomeini (RA) and the Strategy of Islamic Unity”, and Linda Taboush, a Lebanese university lecturer and analyst, will present her speech on “Imam Khomeini (RA); The Innovator of the Islamic Ummah’s Self-Discovery”.
Ayatollah Ruhollah Moussavi Khomeini, better known as Imam Khomeini, founded Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, which led to the overthrow of the U.S.-backed Shah of Iran.
Born in 1902, he grew to become the iconic leader of the Iranian nation’s struggle in the 1970s against the centuries-old monarchical tyranny.
Imam Khomeini passed away on June 3, 1989, at the age of 87.