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Thirty years ago millions of mourners crowded the streets of Tehran for the funeral of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, and today the founder of the Islamic republic remains a guiding figure in Iran. The ...

A wave of public demonstrations has swept across Iran on the anniversary of the death of Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic republic, with Iranians dancing in the streets in a display of ...

Three decades before the “War on Terror” and its orientation of “Islamic terrorism” as the principal threat to American security, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was its standing talisman. The color ...

TEHRAN, Iran -- The chant for the dead echoed off the massive shrine and rolled across a sea of asphalt, mixing with the roar of diesel buses disgorging pilgrims from across Iran. Inside the shrine of ...

TEHRAN, Aug 20, 2007 (AFP) - Iran's ex-president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has aroused controversy after saying in a new book that revolutionary founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini favoured dropping ...

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic republic, was publicly opposed to the United States, which he branded the "Great Satan." But Khomeini and his close aides secretly engaged with ...

Wednesday's attack on the Iranian Parliament and the mausoleum of the founder of the Islamic Republic was the first inside Iran by the Islamic State, which claimed responsibility. Here’s what you need ...

The author has written many well-regarded novels, but his fifth, The Satanic Verses, was the subject of global controversy when Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini placed a fatwa on him calling for his ...

At least 12 people were killed and dozens more injured when six terrorists with assault rifles and suicide vests attacked the Iranian Parliament and the mausoleum of the founder of the Islamic ...