The Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the public face of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, won over many supporters in the West despite his brutality. His image as a Muslim saint was in large part the result ...

Under the reign of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran, once America and Israel's closest ally in the Middle East, became their bitterest enemy ...

Photo: Ayatollah Khomeini leaving the Air France Boeing 747 jumbo that flew him back from exile in France to Tehran. (Credit: Gabriel Duval, AFP/Getty Images.) ...

Hassan Khomeini, whose grandfather Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini led the 1979 revolution, is seen as a moderate influence, and is little loved by hard-liners.

On 4 November 1964, the founder of the Islamic Republic Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini better known as Imam Khomeini was secretly taken to Ankara and then to Bursa, Turkey. Almost a year later on 5 ...

Versailles (France) (AFP) – A hugely controversial display panel outside Paris on private land commemorating the stay of Iran's late revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in France ...

Protesters in Iran have set on fire the ancestral home of the Islamic republic's founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini two months into the anti-regime protest movement, images showed on Friday.

Hassan Khomeini, the grandson of Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini, asserted that Israel will not back down unless confronted with force and power in an interview with Channel 1 on Saturday.

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday made his first public appearance since the outbreak of his country's ...

A hugely controversial display panel outside Paris on private land commemorating the stay of Iran's late revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in France has been badly damaged, police said ...

The theory was so plainly heretical that it was immediately rejected by almost every other ayatollah in Iran, including Khomeini’s then-superiors, ayatollahs Hossein Kazemeyni Boroujerdi and Mohammad ...