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

In 1921, Imam Khomeini commenced his studies in Arak. The following year, Ayatollah Haeri-Yazdi transferred the Islamic seminary to the holy city of Qom and invited his students to follow. Imam ...

Central planning thwarts Iran’s economy. Many Iranian government officials blame their nation’s economic demise on Western ...

Minutes has been covering the geopolitical situation in Iranian for almost five decades. Here are some of the reports we've broadcast.

The Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the public face of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, won over many supporters in the West despite his brutality. ... France, shortly before his return to Iran.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was seen in public over the weekend for the first time since Israel began its ...

Operation Ayatollah: Iran’s cornered leader and how he hopes to survive. ... Khomeini flew back from exile in France and opportunistically seized control, becoming Supreme Leader.

Israel and Iran seemed to honor the fragile ceasefire between them for a second day, and U.S. President Donald Trump asserted ...

Iran remains the US’s adversary in the Middle East since the 1979 Islamic revolution led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

After the shah was overthrown in the 1979 revolution, Iran became an Islamic republic. Khamenei was appointed as a member of the Islamic Revolutionary Council, which was put in place to manage the ...