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Wife of founder of Iran's Islamic republic dies

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The wife of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the father of Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution, has died at the age of 93.

 

Iran's state television says Khadijeh Saqafi died Saturday in Tehran after a long illness. During her life, Saqafi was known as the "mother of the Islamic revolution." (AP)

 

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