Ruhollah Khomeini, known as the father of the 1979 ... crash has intensified discussions about Iran's future leadership. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Khomeini’s successor, now faces challenges ...

D UBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran has responded to a letter sent by U.S. President Donald Trump to its supreme leader in an ...

When Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini launched an Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979 and overthrew the country’s pro-Western ...

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic, is greeted by large crowds after the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Khomeini was welcomed by many Iranians as an antidote to the ...

Jerusalem Day is an annual international day launched by Iran’s first supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1979 in which Iranians and many of their allies show support for the Palestinians.

The Ayatollah Khomeini, the current regime’s founder, issued a fatwa for Rushdie’s murder in 1989. A bounty, raised in recent years, stood at approximately $3 million at the time of the ...

Large crowds took to the streets in the capitals of Iran, Iraq and Yemen on Friday for the annual show of support ...

Mao Zedong and his successors, through Xi Jinping, couldn’t silence it. Ruhollah Khomeini and the ayatollahs couldn’t silence it. But Donald Trump has just silenced the voice of freedom.

Warning that enemies of the Iranian regime “are thinking about instigating sedition inside the country, like they did in some previous years,” 85-year-old Ayatollah Ali Khamenei predicted that ...

Quds (Jerusalem) Day commemorations were launched in 1979 by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic republic, which has made support for the Palestinian cause a cornerstone of its ...