Social media lures Iran's Supreme Leader

By Garrett Nada Their petals are on the national flag. They line the dome above Ayatollah Khomeini's tomb. They adorn billboards of martyrs from the war with Iraq. They have been depicted on coins and postage stamps. And hotels, parks and ...

TEHRAN -- Former Iranian Intelligence Minister Ali Fallahian said Thursday he'd try to emulate Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini if elected president of Iran. Fallahian and former Telecommunications Minister Mohammad Gharazi added their names ...

SABA Hafezi is only a child when the Iranian revolution deposes the Shah and the Ayatollah Khomeini puts an end to western freedoms. In 1981, Saba's family is shattered forever when her mother and twin sister, Mahtab, disappear. A Teaspoon of Earth ...

Men hold pictures of Iran's late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini while attending a ceremony to mark his death anniversary at the Khomeini shrine in the Behesht Zahra cemetery, south of Tehran, June 4, 2011. Article Highlights Terrorism will ...

Asked about atheism in Iran, a group of women at the Mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini in Tehran said they were unfamiliar with the concept. Maybe there are people like that abroad, an amiable elderly lady in a black headscarf eventually said in a ...

font size decrease font size increase font size The Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei has stated that a correct view towards woman is the one that recognizes her within the framework of her own gender and exalting ...

After the huge protests that followed the 2009 election, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei may have hoped June polls would quietly install a loyal conservative president, but the surprise candidacies of two major independents may scupper ...

This is an article on the Late great contemporary Iranian scholar, Ayatollah Morteza Motahhari, on the 34th anniversary of his martyrdom, some three months after the triumph of the Islamic Revolution. Martyr Morteza Motahhari was a great ...

TEHRAN, Apr. 30 (MNA) Ayatollah Sistani's representative says the Leader's guidelines have shown scholars the right path to attaining unity between Muslims. In an interview to Al-Alam on Monday Sheikh Hani Hamid al-Thamer, Grand Ayatollah Sistani's ...