Both before and after the revolution’s victory in February of that year, the world's most prominent newspapers and magazines extensively covered the unfolding events, focusing particularly on its ...

As we drove back to Tehran there were many signs of celebration, including posters, horn-blowing ... Q: You have stated that during your meeting with Ayatollah Khomeini, he asked you several times ...

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 ...

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 ...

Khomeini was 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 role. In his writings and preachings ...

Iran strongly condemned an "insulting" poster depicting Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei displayed on a bus in a French ...