Iran claims that opposition supporters defaced pictures of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to increase the pressure on the opposition Green Movement. But protesters charge it's a set up.

Protesters in Iran have set on fire the ancestral home of the Islamic republic’s founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini two months into the anti-regime protest movement, images showed on Friday.

Police surrounded the campus of Tehran University on Sunday, trapping hundreds of students protesting what they said were fabricated government images of the burning of a photo of the Islamic Repub… ...

Ayatollah Khomeini’s family mostly absent from Iran politics This Saturday, Jan. 19, 2019, photo, shows the shrine of Iran’s revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside of Tehran, Iran.

But before the photos comes the history. On this day in 1979, Iranian religious leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned home after 14 years in exile.

Police surrounded the campus of Tehran University yesterday, trapping hundreds of students protesting what they said were fabricated government images of the burning of a photo of the Islamic ...

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 ...

CAIRO — Iran’s 6-month-old political crisis flared up again on Sunday as the hard-line leadership admonished protesters for damaging pictures of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and as the ...

Protesters in Iran have set on fire the ancestral home of the Islamic republic's founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as two months of anti-regime demonstrations show no letup, images showed on ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — His image is on bank notes and in school textbooks in Iran, often as a black-and-white embodiment of the 1979 Islamic Revolution that swept aside the country's shah and ...