In 1979, mass protests, political unrest, and religious revolution brought down Iran’s monarchy after more than 2,500 years ...

Hassan Khomeini’s political relevance is closely tied to the legacy of his grandfather, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. (File Image) Following Ayatollah Khamenei’s death, Hassan Khomeini, grandson of ...

His father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had turned what was traditionally a religious affairs office into a shadowy national security juggernaut. By Neil MacFarquhar Mojtaba Khamenei takes on a role that ...

Protesters torched the former home of the Islamic cleric who founded Iran’s Islamist dictatorship on Thursday. Anti-regime protesters burned the building, which has served as a museum for several ...

During my first trip to Iran in 1996, I visited Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s tomb, a palatial complex abutting a Behesht-e Zahra Iran-Iraq War cemetery about 14 miles south of Tehran. Like many ...

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini never read Salman Rushdie’s book “The Satanic Verses,” his son Ahmed told me in Tehran, in the early nineteen-nineties. The Iranian leader’s murderous 1989 fatwa against ...

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.

In Iran, From Heroes to State Enemies Many who first organized the siege of the American embassy in 1979 now find themselves under increasing suspicion by the authorities for their connections to the ...