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 ...

TEHRAN Tasnim ndash Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei considered that negotiations with the US administration would not be ...

Iran is celebrating the 45th anniversary of the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Camera: ABEDIN ...

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Neauphle-le-Château is "a name forever recorded in the history of Franco-Iranian relations." This is what a sign in French and Persian proclaims in the heart of this town of 3,000 inhabitants, to ...

Ayatollah Khomeini, an exiled cleric, capitalized on widespread discontent by portraying the Shah as an authoritarian dictator and promoting his vision of an Islamic Republic as a just alternative.

Correspondence between Malaysia’s Mahathir Mohamad and Britain’s Margaret Thatcher showed how differently the Muslim world and the West viewed the book. Iranian women have often used images of ...