Time magazine chose Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Revolution, as its Man of the Year for 1979. The ...

Second Iranian executed over alleged crime of protesting against the regime ...

More Ruhollah Mousavi Khomeini (Persian ... a marja or marja al-taqlid ("source of emulation", also known as a Grand Ayatollah) in Twelver Shi'a Islam, but is most famous for his political ...

Protesters in Iran have set fire to the ancestral home of the founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Images posted on social media show part of the structure in the city of ...

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

Ruhollah Khomeini, known as the father of the 1979 ... crash has intensified discussions about Iran's future leadership.

Formally known as the Headquarters for Executing the Order of the Imam, Setad was set up by Iran’s first supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to organise the management and sale of ...

In addition to his espionage, the Granovsky is accused of setting fire to eight vehicles in multiple incidents throughout Israel and spraypainting the words "Children of Ruhollah," the name given ...

When in 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini led the Islamic Revolution, opposition to the Shah united most of Khomeini’s followers. While Khomeini spoke of an Islamic democracy and insisted he had ...

Broken pictures of Iranian spiritual leaders Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini lie on the floor at the Iranian embassy after opposition forces took control of the city in ...

TEHRAN--Iranians reacted with praise and worry Saturday over the attack on novelist Salman Rushdie, the target of a decades-old fatwa by the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini calling ...