The Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the public face of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, won over many supporters in the West despite his brutality. His image as a Muslim saint was in large part the result ...

Under the reign of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran, once America and Israel's closest ally in the Middle East, became their bitterest enemy ...

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.

Minutes has been covering the geopolitical situation in Iranian for almost five decades. Here are some of the reports we've broadcast.

Photo: Ayatollah Khomeini leaving the Air France Boeing 747 jumbo that flew him back from exile in France to Tehran. (Credit: Gabriel Duval, AFP/Getty Images.) ...

Central planning thwarts Iran’s economy. Many Iranian government officials blame their nation’s economic demise on Western ...

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was seen in public over the weekend for the first time since Israel began its ...

TEHRAN, Jun. 04 (MNA) – Imam Khomeini dedicated most of his life to resistance against the US-backed Pahlavi dynasty, which led to its downfall in the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Here is a look at his ...

After the shah was overthrown in the 1979 revolution, Iran became an Islamic republic. Khamenei was appointed as a member of the Islamic Revolutionary Council, which was put in place to manage the ...

But in the ensuing power vacuum, Khomeini flew back from exile in France and opportunistically seized control, becoming Supreme Leader.

Ayatollah Sayyed Ruhollah Mousavi Khomeini was a Muslim cleric and Marja, and the political leader of the 1979 Islamic Revolution of Iran which overthrew Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran.