Saddam Hussein could have changed everything. In an ironic twist, the Iraqi dictator responsible for countless deaths across ...

The Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the public face of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, won over many supporters in the West ...

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the architect of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution had ancestral roots in Uttar Pradesh.

They began as quiet scholars. They ended up reshaping the Middle East. The untold story of how Khomeini and Khamenei turned ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — For many Iranians it was a lightning sequence of events: A 12-day war with Israel and a ...

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has served as the second supreme leader of Iran since 1989. He is a powerful figure in the Middle East ...

He became its first supreme leader. After Khomeini’s death in 1989, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei took over as the supreme leader. Today, he's at the helm as Iran grapples with another major crisis.

The ruling establishment will immediately seek to name a successor to Khamenei if he is killed, a source said.

Senior clerics in Iran are accelerating the hunt for a successor to Iran's Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei following ...

BBC journalist and author Baqer Moin, in his book Khomeini: Life of the Ayatollah, writes that Syed Ahmad Musavi Hindi left Kintoor around 1830, drawn to Najaf, Iraq, for pilgrimage.

Mojtaba Khamenei, hardline son of supreme leader, said to be a frontrunner, alongside Hassan Khomeini, his predecessor's ...