After eleven days in a hospital for an operation to stop internal bleeding, Imam Khomeini died of cancer on Saturday, June 3, 1989, at the age of 89.
Daidai karfe sha daya da minti ashirin na dare ranar asabar 13 ga watan Khordad 1368 (3 ga Yuni 1989) lokacin saduwa da abin kauna ya yi.