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.

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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Iran’s Women Haven’t Been This Angry in a Generation. Oct. 7, 2022. Iranian women demonstrating for equal rights in 1979. ... 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.

Billboards advertised non-existent commodities, fancy restaurants didn’t have a single customer, cranes hung idle beside unfinished towers. Everywhere you looked you saw the face of Ayatollah Khomeini ...

Khomeini’s genius lay in his ability to sell a facade of freedom, while underneath, he built the foundations for a war against the very values that the West holds dear.

MADRID- On the 35th anniversary of the passing of Imam Khomeini, the architect of the Islamic Revolution, his figure remains crucial not only to understanding the current political landscape of the ...

Imam Khomeini, however, envisioned a different path; one in which Palestine, abandoned by international law, could only be liberated from Israeli occupation through some form of resistance. From an ...