21 years ago when I was a child at the end of spring 1989, Ayatollah Khomeini former supreme leader of Islamic Republic died. It caused to make me sad. I don’t know why a little boy should be sad of a political and religious leader’s death. But I was sad like my family.
A public mourning was declared for 40 days and after that came “Moharram” and “Safar” two lunar months which Shiites are mourning for Imam Hosein, Prophet Mohammad and Imam Hasan and Imam Reza who were martyr in this two months.
About 100 days mourning was too much. There were only two TV channel have less than 16 hours program and it was the only entertainment for us in about 4 months’ summer holidays. In periods of mourning TV programs often limits to religious lectures and eulogy and so on.
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