Gorbachev

Summary: The great leader of the Islamic world had wanted Mikhail Gorbachev to pay attention towards spirituality and the world hereafter. The letter came at a sensitive juncture of history when the world had plunged into social and moral decline.  Gorbachev delivered his official response to Imam Khomeini’s historic letter through the then Soviet foreign minister, Edward Shevardnadze in Tehran. The response came eight weeks after Imam Khomeini’s letter to Gorbachev was narrated by an Iranian delegation in Moscow in early January 1989.