Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei chose the ... of the Islamic Republic under Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Prior to the revolution, Iran was ruled by Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who ...

The soon-to-be-published book "Revayat-e Aqa" will provide an in-depth account of the life, personality, and scholarly and ...

including Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti, who was considered Khomeini's second in command; former Foreign Minister Ebrahim Yazdi; and Mehdi Bazargan, the first prime minister after the revolution.

Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Iran after ... aiming to foster a generation aligned with the ideals of the revolution. Khomeini’s era saw a shift towards economic policies that emphasized self ...

This week's column considers the growth of Islamic fundamentalism following the Iranian revolution in light of the reaction to Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses. Concerning the Ayatollah's ...

Ayatollah Khamenei met with a group of teachers and educators on Saturday morning. Tehran, IRNA – A group of teachers and educators from across the country meet with Leader of the Islamic Revolution ...

I recall my pain and frustration in the weeks following the 1979 revolution, when Ayatollah Khomeini and others in charge passed sharia laws in conjunction with practices straight out of the ...

“Ayatollah Hassan Lahouti, who was released from jail during the revolution, got an order from Khomeini to gather weapons from the hands of the people,” Sazegara recounted. “At the final ...

The inner circle of clerics around Khomeini publicly split as the Revolution celebrated its tenth anniversary. Ayatollah Ali Montazeri, Khomeini’s handpicked successor and a man he once called ...

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei denounced the US president’s false claim that peace can be ...

Dr. Yazdi’s calls for moderation were tolerated because of his early kinship with Ayatollah Khomeini, the father of the Iranian revolution.

A mural in the holy city of Qom depicts Ayatollah Khomeini, leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, on the left, and Ali Khamenei, the current Supreme Leader of Iran, on the right. In late October ...