Personal desire, age, and my health do not allow me to personally have a role in running the country after the fall of the current system.


Associated Press interview in Paris (7 November 1978); repeated on several occasions before Khomeini returned to Iran


Personal desire, age, and my health do not allow me to personally have a role in running the country after the fall of the current system.

Personal desire, age, and my health do not allow me to personally have a role in running the country after the fall of the current system.

Personal desire, age, and my health do not allow me to personally have a role in running the country after the fall of the current system.

Personal desire, age, and my health do not allow me to personally have a role in running the country after the fall of the current system.