Iran to put Khomeini's works on Internet

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran plans to put the complete works of its late spiritual leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on the Internet, an Iranian official said Monday. 

Hamid Ansari, head of an institute publishing Khomeini's writings, said the late leader's 210 works in Persian and 107 of his texts translated into 16 languages would be made available on the web, the Iranian news agency IRNA reported. Besides purely religious works, Khomeini has theoretical writings on Shi'ite Islam's views on politics, which formed the basis of the clergy-dominated government set up after Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution. Several poems by the late revolutionary leader have also been published since his death on June 3, 1989. Ansari, who was speaking on the occasion of events marking the anniversary of Khomeini's death, did not say when the Internet service would start and gave no further details.