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 ...

The return of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to Iran on February 1, 1979, marked a turning point in Iranian history. Millions of followers turned out in Tehran to greet Khomeini as he arrived from Paris, ...

Oriana Fallaci, the Italian journalist who is noted for her provocative interviews, interviews the leader of the Islamic Revolution, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, on Sept 12, 1979. For 10 days ...

Reza Khan, a military officer in Persia’s Cossack Brigade, names himself shah of Persia after successfully staging a coup against the government of the Qajar Dynasty. He immediately launches an ...

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (1900-1989), better known as Imam Khomeini (RA), was a Muslim cleric, Marja, and the leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, which overthrew the last Pahlavi Shah, Mohammad ...

NEAUPHLE-LE-CHATEAU, France (AP) — From a sleepy village outside Paris, the man who would become the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran sat cross-legged beneath an apple tree, delivering ...

Ruhollah Khomeini, Ayatollah Khomeini, Imam Khomeini (17 May 1900 – 3 June 1989) was an Iranian political and religious leader who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death ...

The Countdown to Conflict with Venezuela Looks Nothing Like the Run-Up to the Iran Strikes Audio By Carbonatix The Berkeley professor has made a career of glorifying the indefensible. Hamid Algar ...

Seyyed Ahmad Khomeini, a descendant of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, told The Times that the legacy of his family name was at stake in the conflict. By Farnaz Fassihi The 28-year-old great-grandson of ...