Iran, known for its strict interpretation of Shia Islamic laws, was just four decades ago a modern nation embracing Western ...

Second Iranian executed over alleged crime of protesting against the regime ...

I say this as an imam of the Shia community in Lebanon—the biggest threat to Lebanon and the Middle East is the radical ...

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 ...

Rushdie, 77, lived in hiding for years after Iran's first supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ordered his killing for what he deemed the book's blasphemous nature. The British-American ...

A historic fatwa In 1987, the leader of Iran's Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa — an Islamic legal decree — declaring that gender-affirming surgery did not violate ...

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's grandson, popular with reform-minded politicians in Iran, is set to contest an important election.

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 ...

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini overthrew the Pahlavi dynasty and established the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979 In light of the recent anti-establishment protests in Iran, Persian speakers on ...

The influence is real, massive and growing. More Ruhollah Mousavi Khomeini (Persian: روح الله موسوی خمینی, pronounced ( listen); 24 September 1900 – 3 June 1989) was an ...