Khomeini, who had been in exile since the mid-1960s, returned to Tehran from France amid jubilant crowds and widespread support. Khamenei quickly ascended through the ranks of the early ...

This month marks the 45th anniversary of the founding of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Mohsen Sazegara, a non-resident scholar with MEI’s Iran Program, was one of the group’s ...

Imam Khamenei, Leader of the Islamic Revolution, held a meeting with the country's officials in charge of conducting and organizing Hajj pilgrimage. The gathering took place in the Imam Khomeini ...

Mahmoud Mehrabi is the latest in a series of activists arrested in connection with the 2022 protests who have been sentenced ...

Iranian worshippers walk past a mural showing the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, ... [+] right, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left, and Basij paramilitary force ...

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Born in the north-eastern city of Mashhad in 1939, the son of a religious scholar, Khamenei studied at seminaries in his home city before moving to the Shia holy city ...

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Whether it would really do so would be up to Khomeini’s successor. Khamenei was a hard-line revolutionary activist, known for translating into Persian the works of Sayyid Qutb, the notorious ...

Imam Khamenei, Leader of the Islamic Revolution, has met with a number of teachers and education officials from across the ...

Mideast Tensions Military Might FILE - Iranian worshippers walk past a mural showing the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, right, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left ...

FILE - Iranian worshippers walk past a mural showing the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, right, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left, and Basij paramilitary force ...