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.

Imam Khomeini adamantly opposed monarchy, arguing that only rule by a leading Islamic jurist would insure Sharia was properly followed (Velayat-e Faqih). Imam Khomeini believed that Iran should strive ...

So Khomeini's international antecedents touch on highly sensitive fault lines in the Iranian psyche. The same goes for Ahmadinejad. Iranian Jews belong to one of the world's oldest Jewish communities.

Khomeini, better known as Imam Khomeini, was the founder of the Islamic Republic and leader of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which ended autocratic rule. The main ceremony is held at his mausoleum in ...

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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." ...

A small group of seminarians, seeking refuge, went to Imam Khomeini’s home. And they had every right to be afraid. What they had witnessed was, at the very least, unprecedented in Iran’s modern ...

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 ...

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.

He was Khomeini's designated heir until the late 1980s, when he condemned the violence committed in the name of the revolution. In his critiques of Khamenei last year, Montazeri reiterated an argument ...

WATCH: Iranian protestors set regime founder Khomeini's former home ablaze Although he died in 1989, Khomeini as a cultural figure is very much alive in the Islamic Republic.