and students have torn down large pictures of the supreme leader and his predecessor Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in recent video footage published by Agence France-Presse. In Iran’s biggest ...

On April 13, 2024, Iran – which essentially means the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – committed a major strategic ...

The photos were all taken in Iran before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which saw the ousting of King Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and the installment of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini - a shift that ...

The 1979 takeover of Iran by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and the Revolutionary Guards, once seen by some as a hope for change, has become a nightmare for millions. Decades of repression—mass ...

Washington officially broke off relations with Tehran in 1980, midway through crisis, and they have been frozen ever since.

While the interim prime minister controlled the government and state institutions such as the army, many clerics and disciples of Iran’s founding supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ...

Iranian demonstrators gathered on Sunday outside the former US embassy in Tehran to mark the anniversary of the 1979 hostage ...

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.

A young woman's defiant protest at Tehran's Islamic Azad University has reignited global attention on Iran's compulsory ...

The hostage crisis began in November 1979 following the Islamic revolution led by Iran's late supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini which ousted the Western-backed Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi.

The hostage crisis began in November 1979 following the Islamic Revolution led by Iran’s late supreme leader Ruhollah Khomeini which ousted the Western-backed Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi.