Time magazine chose Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Revolution, as its Man of the Year for 1979. The ...

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 ...

When Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini launched an Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979 and overthrew the country’s pro-Western ...

More Ruhollah Mousavi Khomeini (Persian ... a marja or marja al-taqlid ("source of emulation", also known as a Grand Ayatollah) in Twelver Shi'a Islam, but is most famous for his political ...

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, took power in Iran. “We grew up together. I was devastated when hearing the news of her execution because she was supposed to be released from prison that very day ...

Ruhollah Khomeini, a Shiite cleric, along with his follower Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, led opposition to the Shah and demanded his removal. In 1964, Khomeini was exiled to Iraq, while Khamenei faced ...

Iran played a central role in Jimmy Carter's presidency, but in Tehran, where state television branded him the "architect of ...

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

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 ...