Iran's Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's first Friday ... Apart from choosing the historic Imam Khomeini Mosque, which played a key role in the 1979 Islamic Revolution, for his rare sermon ...

Khomeini was 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 role. In his writings and preachings ...

Echoing Salami’s sentiments, Ayatollah Khomeini’s grandson, Hojjatoleslam Seyyed Hassan Khomeini, praised the IRGC’s role in safeguarding Iran’s sovereignty. He lauded Operation True Promise II as “a ...

"The Iranian people will always remember the French people's hospitality and the welcome given to Imam Khomeini," it reads ... that gave permission for the ayatollah to stay here," Elisabeth ...

The Ayatollah Khomeini, the current regime’s founder, issued a fatwa for Rushdie’s murder in 1989. A bounty, raised in recent years, stood at approximately $3 million at the time of the ...