Iran’s Supreme Leaders Ayatollah Khomeini and Ayatollah Khamenei share a little-known ancestral link to Kintoor village in Uttar Pradesh’s Barabanki district. Their forefather, Syed Ahmad Musavi Hindi, a Shia cleric from India, migrated to Iran in the 19th century — a legacy that shaped Iran’s Islamic revolution and leadership.
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