It is not easy with names. It would have been interesting if Penn met Hossein Khomaini
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3144082.stm
"Today, Iranian people again want democracy, they want freedom. Furthermore they have experienced everything, they have experience theocracy in Iran and they have come to understand that religion and government cannot be one and the same."
Mr Khomeini said he had been involved in the 1979 revolution led by his grandfather but about two years after the fall of the shah he began to question the practicalities of an Islamic republic."
instead of Hassan Khomeini.
I mixed them up in 2003:
http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/961759/posts?page=11#11