Angry young Afghans poured into the streets of Kabul today, tore down billboards and posters of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini across the city, and condemned Iran’s growing influence in Afghanistan.

Seyyed Ahmad Khomeini, a descendant of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, told The Times that the legacy of his family name was at ...

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.

Crowds will be herded into the Khomeini mausoleum in southern Tehran to pay tribute to the Islamic republic’s first supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who died 30 years ago, on June 3 ...

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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Iranian supreme leader, has accused the country’s opposition of breaking the law by insulting the Islamic republic's founder, the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

Unlike Iran’s Khomeini, the former Pakistani PM is neither a revolutionary nor is he seeking to overthrow established institutions as part of his so-called righteous struggle.

The shah had abdicated and was replaced by the Ayatollah Khomeini. Angry demonstrators took control of the U.S. embassy and the whole world watched as 52 Americans were taken hostage.

Ayatollah Khomeini, who died of heart failure in 1989, is still celebrated in Iran as the founder of the Islamic republic. His supporters refer to him as "the Imam." ...

Ali Khomeini, a grandson of revolutionary leader and Islamic Republic of Iran founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, has defended thousands of summary executions of political prisoners in 1988 ...

Exactly 35 years ago, I had the experience of a lengthy meeting with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in his tent where he received visitors in the Paris suburb of Neuphle-le-Chateau. It was on the day ...