Both the Phantom and Tomcat platforms were delivered to Iran prior to the fall of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and the ...

Anything that was and is against Western culture and tradition is embraced by certain influential intellectuals.

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.

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 ...

The trial of Hati Matar, the 26-year-old accused of nearly killing author Salman Rushie in 2022, kicked off in Mayville, New ...

Iran’s president and his cabinet members visited the mausoleum of Imam Khomeini on Saturday to reaffirm allegiance to the ...

Rushdie spent years in hiding after the late Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued the fatwa in 1989 over the Rushdie novel, “The Satanic Verses,” which some Muslims consider ...

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 ...

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A year after it was banned, Iran’s late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, or edict, calling for Rushdie’s death. This trial has been delayed multiple times. The last time it was ...