Saed News: On the anniversary of the passing of Ayatollah Seyed Javad Khamenei, memories shared by the Supreme Leader about his childhood home have been republished.
According to the political desk of Saed News, quoting Mashregh News, the official website of the Office for the Preservation and Publication of the Works of Ayatollah Khamenei has republished memories shared by the Supreme Leader on the anniversary of the passing of Ayatollah Seyed Javad Khamenei, the Leader’s father. These recollections were originally shared on July 4, 1996. The statements by the Supreme Leader are as follows:
“I was the president at the time, and the resources of the country — to the extent that were at the president’s disposal — were available to me. Yet this elderly man and woman (my parents) had not the slightest expectation that, because their son had become president, the house should be upgraded or improved in any way.
My father lived in that house until 1986, and my mother stayed there until the end of my presidency. But the house underwent the bare minimum of changes, and was never completed or enhanced. This is a source of pride and honor for the Islamic Republic...
Of course, the credit for this does not go to me, but to those two honorable individuals who, in the true sense of the word, were ascetics and had no attachment to worldly luxuries or appearances. It simply didn’t matter to them how or where they lived.
When my father passed away, after appraising the items in the house — excluding his books, which were a separate matter — the total value of everything amounted to about 45,000 tomans. At that time, 45,000 tomans wasn’t even enough to buy a refrigerator and a gas stove. This, despite the fact that he had been an imam of congregational prayer and a well-respected cleric in this city for fifty years, with many followers and admirers! This is how our elders lived.”
