While the first three parts of the series explored the history of Shiite Islam and how the lack of an earthly imam formed ...

Reuters archive video from the time shows Khomeini sitting on a mattress under an apple tree, Persian prayer rugs in front of him, in quiet conversation.

TEHRAN, Jun. 04 (MNA) – Imam Khomeini dedicated most of his life to resistance against the US-backed Pahlavi dynasty, which led to its downfall in the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Here is a look at his ...

On 27 January, 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini - founder of Iran's Islamic Republic, the man who called the United States "the Great Satan" - sent a secret message to Washington. From his home ...

Apart from Iran’s Islamic revolution, for which Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini could claim only partial credit, his most momentous achievement was the February 1989 fatwa against author Salman Rushdie.

While the Iranian constitution outlines a process for succession, even indirect confirmation of such planning is rare — and it underscores the regime’s growing concern about managing an eventual ...

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini formerly lived in the structure in question, according to the BBC. One video posted to Twitter showed the structure on fire while protesters walked around it.

In a bizarre ceremony in Tehran, the 1979 return to Iran of the founder of the Islamic republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, was celebrated and reenacted using a cardboard cutout as a stand-in ...

Khomeini was shown at a meeting of volunteer guards at the Jamaran mosque, near his home in northern Tehran. The television report showed Khomeini sitting at one side of a podium as Ali […] ...

Then, with him sitting at the helm, taking on the roll of law maker, they would decide what policies were acceptably Islamic, to ensure that all institutions within the country would be run in ...