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Seyyed Ahmad Khomeini, a descendant of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, told The Times that the legacy of his family name was at stake in the conflict.
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On Sunday, a top Shia religious leader in Iran issued a fatwa against anyone who threatens Iran’s supreme leader, following ...
Exposé : How Western intellectuals greeted Khomeini’s Islamic apocalypse The ayatollah left behind piles of corpses while building a 'paradise on earth', like the communists, but elite Western ...
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.
Iranian activists say protesters set a fire at the ancestral home of the founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the latest in a series of taboo-breaking acts in a wave of ...
Khomeini was the first Islamic cleric to hold the title of “Supreme Leader” in Iran’s Islamic Republic. He was vital in overthrowing Iran’s ruling Shah in the country’s 1979 revolution .
The man accused of stabbing Salman Rushdie said he respected Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini but would not say if he was inspired by a fatwa issued by the former Iranian leader, according to a New ...
A small group of seminarians, seeking refuge, went to Imam Khomeini’s home. And they had every right to be afraid. What they had witnessed was, at the very least, unprecedented in Iran’s modern ...
Trump claims Khomeini is “safe” for now but wouldn’t rule out killing the leader. “We know exactly where the so-called ‘Supreme Leader’ is hiding. He is an easy target, ...
In 1921, Imam Khomeini commenced his studies in Arak. The following year, Ayatollah Haeri-Yazdi transferred the Islamic seminary to the holy city of Qom and invited his students to follow. Imam ...
Khomeini, better known as Imam Khomeini, was the founder of the Islamic Republic and leader of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which ended autocratic rule. The main ceremony is held at his mausoleum in ...
MADRID – On the 36th anniversary of the passing of Imam Ruhollah Khomeini, the central figure of the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, his thought continues to influence not only the political ...