Bayan wasu 'yan kwanaki, gwamnatin Bakhtiyar ta bude filin jirgin sama saboda gagarar da ta yi wajen jure wa wannan bore na al'umma. Daga karshe, a safiyar ranar 12 ga watan Bahman 1357 (1 ga watan Fabrairun 1979) Imam Khumaini ya dawo gida bayan shekaru 14 na gudun hijira. Irin gagarumar tarbar da al'umma suka yi masa ya kai matsayin da hatta kafafen watsa labaran yammaci sun gagara inkarin hakan, inda su da kansu suka ce mutanen da suka tarbi Imam Khumaini sun kai miliyan 4 zuwa 6.