Ruhollah Khomeini

The Islamic Republic of Iran was born through deception

Convicted assailant Hadi Matar faces ​up to life term in prison

To him and many around him, Ayatollah Khomeini appeared to be a pious and even saintly religious figure

Four years after being stabbed on an amphitheater stage, Salman Rushdie on Thursday sat across a courtroom from his convicted attacker and told jurors for a second time about the ambush that nearly killed him

The man who was convicted of trying to kill Salman Rushdie is going on trial again, this time in a federal terrorism case that is probing deeper into what allegedly motivated the stabbing on a lecture stage in 2022

Weeping mourners held pictures of the late supreme leader and waved thousands of red banners symbolizing revenge

Authorities expect public mourning and grand processions to attract millions before Khamenei's burial next week, four months after he was killed aged 86 at his compound in the opening US-Israeli salvo of the Middle East war

Those in the crowd beat their chests rhythmically in the intense summer heat, the wails of women cutting through the noise

Since the start of Muharram — the first month of the Islamic calendar — last week, black cloths have been draped across many of the passageways and neighbourhoods in Tehran and other Iranian cities as a sign of mourning

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's funerals will take place next month

Iran is demanding $24 billion in frozen assets to reopen the vital shipping lane, treating it like a hostage negotiation

Israel has kept up strikes in southern Lebanon after invading

Trump Bashes House Vote to Limit War Powers

Israel has threatened to launch a fresh bombing campaign in Lebanon despite US President Donald Trump's fury over attacks on the country this week

Trump, Rubio say supreme leader taking bigger role despite remaining out of public view

US seeks to decouple Iran negotiations from Israel–Hezbollah conflict in Lebanon

Following the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Shiite protesters in Karachi, Pakistan, and Baghdad, Iraq, stormed U.S. diplomatic missions and fought pitched battles with security forces

Oil prices slipped back down below $100 a barrel and U.S. markets shot up on Monday after U.S. President Donald Trump rolled back his threat to strike Iran's power plants and hinted at progress toward an end to more than three weeks of strikes across the Middle East

The press should probe, Congress should challenge, and both parties should debate the wisdom of any potential military action

These are not trivial matters, and the stakes—American lives, regional stability and nuclear proliferation—are too high for anything less than serious scrutiny

Islamic Republic’s government is expected to prove resilient despite attacks that have targeted many of its top leaders

The shift to an attritional war focused on energy infrastructure risks becoming a quagmire

Barely an hour passes in Tehran without the sound of an explosion

On Eid, Shia Muslims in Madhya Pradesh denounce killing of Khamenei; chant slogans against US, Israel

The Indian-born, British-American Rushdie’s comments came nearly four years after the August 2022 lecture at New York’s Chautauqua Institution where a knife-wielding attacker stabbed him while he was on stage

Since the 1920s, Iran has lived through two defining political moments that have reflected two distinct civilisational identities

FirstFT: Iran’s new supreme leader vows to keep blocking Strait of Hormuz

Guards pushed wavering ayatollahs to back Khamenei

The rally is a well-known part of an international day of demonstrations established in 1979 by Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini with the aim of mobilizing opposition to Israel and expressing solidarity with Palestinians

Trump Wants the Iranians to Rise Up

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Iran announces three-day ceremony to mourn Khamenei

Once known largely as a scholar‑administrator, ‌the hardline cleric is now one of three senior officials entrusted with steering the state through its most volatile period since the 1979 revolution

Nobody can say how the US-Israeli war on Iran will play out, let alone what will happen to Iran once hostilities end

Videos posted on social media appearing to show mourners paying their respects to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei have been described as "deeply concerning"

Terrified Iranian families are retreating inside their homes and rationing food and water as they fear being slaughtered by their own government if President Donald Trump's military operation fails to obliterate the regime

Terrified Iranian families are retreating inside their homes and rationing food and water as they fear being slaughtered by their own government if President Donald Trump's military operation fails to obliterate the regime

Terrified Iranian families are retreating inside their homes and rationing food and water as they fear being slaughtered by their own government if President Donald Trump's military operation fails to obliterate the regime

Iran threatens critical oil shipping channel

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who ruled Iran for decades while violently crushing dissent, was killed early in the attack

To help understand how the Iranian people will react after the American and Israeli attacks end, it is important to realize that the 1979 Iranian revolution was no revolution at all

It recruited some of the most prominent figures in American politics, including former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Democratic National Committee chair Howard Dean, initially with the goal of getting the State Department to shed the MEK’s longstanding designation as a terrorist group