Bangladesh, Feb. 7 -- In a recent social media post, Irans Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said, “We cannot consider ourselves to be Muslims if we are oblivious to the suffering that a Muslim is enduring in. India or any other place.” One finds his comment is hardly surprising. After all, Khamenei is just a successor of Ruhollah Khomeini, the father of the Islamic Revolution in 1979, who had to be followed by whosever is in power in the post-Shah landscape in Iran.

It may be recalled that Khomeini had a strong connection to the Shia faith he inherited from his grandfather, Syed Ahmad Musavi Hindi. Hindi happened to be a Shia cleric, born in Kintoor, near Barabanki in Indias Uttar Pradesh. He migrated to Iran in 1830. Hindi was dr...