The Imam is intensely emotional. For example when he was in the city of Najaf, and sometimes my sisters would visit us there, when it was time for them to return to Iran, I could never bring myself to stand in the courtyard to see the Imam bid them farewell—I would simply leave the scene. My late brother would also say the same thing that I could simply not see the moment when they bid farewell. Because the Imam was so emotionally attached to his children, they could not bear to see it. However, the intense affection and emotion did not have the least impact on his decision-making or in his work.
The Imam is intensely emotional: Sayyid Ahmad Khomeini