Iran conducted the launch using its Simorgh program, a satellite-carrying rocket that had had a series of failed launches, at Iran's Imam Khomeini ... former President Hassan Rouhani, the Islamic ...

Mr Raisi, a hardline cleric, succeeds Hassan Rouhani, seen in the West as a relative ... because then-Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini had issued a fatwa, or religious ruling.

President Hassan Rouhani said Iran's message was that "terrorism ... which is dedicated to the Islamic Republic's founder Ayatollah Khomeini, attackers began their assault by opening fire.

Iran claims the Simorgh rocket carried a payload of 660 pounds, heavier than its previous successful launches.

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's grandson, popular with reform-minded politicians in Iran, is set to contest an important election.

Qasem Soleimani the previous week Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani took to Twitter to call ... crashed five minutes after takeoff from Tehran’s Imam Khomeini airport on Wednesday Jan. 8 ...

The launch took place at Iran's Imam Khomeini Spaceport in rural Semnan province ... Under Iran’s relatively moderate former ...