Ayatollah Sayyed Ruhollah Mousavi Khomeini was a Muslim cleric and Marja, and the political leader of the 1979 Islamic Revolution of Iran which overthrew Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran.

Salman Rushdie was so stunned when a masked man started to stab him on a stage in western New York that the author didn’t ...

A group of investors led by Elon Musk is offering about $97.4 billion to buy the nonprofit behind OpenAI, escalating a ...

The struggle against the U.S.-supported Shah, spearheaded by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (commonly referred to as Imam Khomeini), had been underway for some years. However, the pace of events ...

Reagan said of the captives. The hostage crisis had its origins in the Islamic Revolution, led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, that toppled Iran’s monarchy in 1979. In October of that year ...

In terms of personality and intellect, Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini was the essence of villainy and malevolence. A month before Khomeini’s arrival, Robert Ernest Huyser – on a special mission ...

On February 1, 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned from exile and led a national uprising that toppled the Pahlavi regime on February 11 that year.

The replacement of the implacable Koranic figures who formerly ruled Iran with a smiling cleric who reads ... Until his death, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini occupied the post. In 1989 he was ...

Salman Rushdie was so stunned when a masked man started to stab him on a stage in western New York in 2022 that the acclaimed author didn't even try to fight back, a prosecutor said Monday during ...