Important note: the original text contains very disturbing, illegal, and graphic content, so I’ve omitted or paraphrased the more disturbing parts. Links below go to the primary sourcing if you want the unfiltered version.

• In Tahrir al-Wasilah, his official book of religious rulings, Khomeini ruled that a man cannot have intercourse with his wife before she turns nine, but that every other form of “enjoyment”, including “touching with lust”, is allowed even if she is a nursing infant. https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Thighing

• This is not some fringe English mistranslation, as the original Arabic text itself contains the “even in a nursing infant” line. https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Thighing

• Iranian human rights researchers have pointed to this exact passage when explaining where child marriage practices in Iran draw their religious legitimacy from. https://wncri.org/2014/11/23/exclusive-report-on-child-brides-under-the-mullahs-rule-in-iran/

• Even though it may sound like this is just an obscure pamphlet, the truth is that his book is actually considered one of the texts that built Khomeini’s reputation as a senior shia jurist before the revolution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahrir_al-Wasilah