Mourners lift up the bier with the body of late Ayatollah Khomeini during funeral ceremonies for the Islamic fundamentalist in Tehran, Iran, June 6, 1989. The religious leader of the Islamic revolution died last Saturday at the age of 86. (AP Photo/Heribert Proepper)

Iran, province of the Khorasan, Torqabeh, portraits of the ayatollahs Khamenei and Khomeini

Iran, province of Khorasan, Mashad, mausoleum of imam Reza "Astan-e-Qods-e-Razavi", portrait of ayatollahs Khomeini et Khamenei, women walking

PHOTO: MAREK ZAJDLER / EAST NEWS Mauzoleum Imama Chomejniego w Teheranie, styczen 2007. MAUSOLEUM OF IMAM KHOMEINI IN TEHRAN, JANUARY 2007.

Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini casts his vote in Iran's parliamentary elections. Date unknown. (AP Photo)

PHOTO: MAREK ZAJDLER / EAST NEWS Mauzoleum Imama Chomejniego w Teheranie, styczen 2007. MAUSOLEUM OF IMAM KHOMEINI IN TEHRAN, JANUARY 2007.

Fot. Marek Zajdler / East News Iranski banknot o nominale 5.000 riali - na awersie portret ajatollaha Chomejniego.

Iranian girls attending a rally to support Iran's nuclear program stand under a monument of Iran's late leader Ayatollah Khomeini, in Tehran, Friday, Feb. 3, 2006. European and U.S. delegates worked Friday to broaden support for Iran's virtually certain referral to the U.N. Security Council, focusing on backroom diplomacy between sessions of a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency. (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP From L to R, Ayatollah Taheri Khoram Abadi, unidentified, Mohammad Tavasoli, adviser to Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, Hassan Khomeini, grandson of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, former Iranian president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, head of the judiciary Mahmud Hashemi Shahrudi, Khatami, parliament speaker Mehdi Karubi and Ayatollah Mahdavi Kani sit under a huge mural of late Iranian leader Ayatolah Ruhollah Khomeini on the 12th anniversary of his death at his mausoleum on the southern outskirts of Tehran 04 June 2001.

Mourners crowd around a huge banner with a picture of the late Ayatollah Khomeini at the cemetery in Beheshte e Zahra, some 70 kms from Tehran, Iran, Sunday June 11, 1989. Several hundred thousand Iranians came to pay their respect for the political and religious leader who died June 3rd. (AP Photo/Heribert Proepper)

Ayatollah Khomeini (Iman of Iran) speaking at the Jamaran meeting on May 29, 1987 in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo)

Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini during an audience with high-ranking Iranian officials and members of the Foreign Diplomatic Corps, in Tehran, June 1985. (AP Photo)

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini looking frail and weak makes a public appearance, Sunday, Aug. 31, 1980 at his Tehran residence. The Ayatollah granting audience to various groups and visitors despite warning from his doctors to the contrary. (AP Photo)

Ayatollah Khomeini addresses hundreds of people, including revolutionary delegates in Tehran for the Liberation Movement Conference, in Aug. 1980. It is the day after the massive marches in protest against the occupation of Palestine by Israel. The Ayatollah warns of the consequences of the prolonged occupation, and the crowd roars in response:

Palestine guerilla leader Yasser Arafat gives a kiss to Ayotolla Ruhollah Khomeini Saturday night, February 18, 1979, during their meeting in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo)

Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini, left, listens as Yasser Arafat makes a point February 18, 1979 in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo)

Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini, left, smiles at something Yasser Arafat is saying February 18, 1979 in Tehran, Iran. The Ayatollah's son has his hand on Arafat's shoulder. (AP Photo)

A large picture of Ayatollah Khomeini hangs from tank gun barrel in front of Niavaran Palace, Feb. 13, 1979 in Tehran. (AP Photo/Aristotle Saris)

Mehdi Bazargan, newly named Prime Minister of a provisional government in Iran, right, speaks with the Ayatollah Khomeini in Tehran, Feb. 5, 1979. Bazargan said he would begin forming his new government as soon as possible. (AP Photo)

Ayatollah Khomeini, the Iranian religious leader shown at a news conference in Teheran on Feb. 5, 1979. No other information given. (AP Photo)