The Imam loved the people. The night when the incident in Behbahan occurred when a primary school was bombed by the Iraqi warplanes, a large number of pupils were martyred. We were seated in a room that the Imam entered. His first words were reference to the Behbahan incident. He recounted this incident with such bitterness and grief as if it had occurred for his own son. The Imam did not shed tears when his son was martyred but he shed tears repeatedly for the children of the people.
He recounted the incident with bitterness: Ayatullah Khamenei