UP: Inside Kintoor, ancestral village of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini

Barabanki (Uttar Pradesh) [India], April 11 (ANI): Iran and India have had civilizational ties and a spiritual and cultural connection among the Shia community. The quiet village of Kintoor in Uttar Pradesh's Barabanki district holds a surprising historical distinction: it is the ancestral home of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution.