Russian President Vladimir Putin is hosting his Iranian counterpart President Masoud Pezeshkian for the signing of a broad ...

One of the UK’s major Muslim organisations is to elect its new leader, with one candidate insisting Government must realise ...

R.I.P. The man who allegedly stabbed novelist Salman Rushdie in a brutal attack last week called the late Iranian ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini “a great person” in comments to the New York Post ...

The Mujahedin al-Khalq (MKO) formed against the backdrop of the anti-shah opposition in the 1960s and evolved to become an important component of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s revolutionary ...

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 ...

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

The two hanging-judges, Ali Razini and Mohammad Moghiseh, were integral parts of a network of criminal clerics at the heart ...

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 ...

Dozens of American hostages held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran for more than a year were freed just as Ronald Reagan was ...

After several months of growing tensions with Israel and the US, and repeated rumours of an imminent military strike ...

After his ouster in the 1979 Islamic Revolution, leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini castigated the U.S. as the “Great Satan,” and denounced the USSR as the “Lesser Satan.” Russia-Iran ties ...