Rafsanjani endorses moderate Rowhani for Iran presidency

(Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei sits next to a portrait of late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in a television live programme in Tehran on the occasion of the Iranian New Year March 21, 2011. REUTERS/Leader.ir/Handout) As Iran ...

Archive footage of the announcement of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's death is rolling. Somber music is playing in the background. And the eyes of a presidential candidate are welling up with tears. The memory of the 1986 death of the Islamic ...

Iran is ruled through weljat'e faghih, a system of government developed by its revolutionary ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, under which the clergy and supreme leader rule. It also forms the basis of the Iranian constitution. Khomeini held the ...

Iranians are marking 24 years since the death of the founder of the Islamic Republic, Ruhollah Ayatollah Khomeini. The commemoration on Tuesday at his shrine in Tehran was being attended by Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, President Mahmoud ...

The daughter of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of Iran's Islamic republic, has emerged among those stunned and angered by the exclusion of former Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani from next month's presidential race. Zahra ...

The passing away anniversary of the late founder of the Islamic Republic Ayatollah Seyyed Ruhollah Khomeini has been commemorated during meetings in London and New Delhi. A number of British Muslims and cultural scholars attended the annual ...

: This photo shows, in front of a portrait of the late Iranian revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, presidential candidate Hasan Rowhani, a former top nuclear negotiator, center, gestures to his supporters at a rally in Tehran, Iran. Iranian ...

New Delhi, June 2, IRNA Arab spring is inspired by the lofty ideology left behind by the late founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (R.A.), said an Indian Shia religious scholar Sunday in

By Helia Ighani and Garrett Nada On the eve of a pivotal election, Iran's theocratic regime faces one of its most striking challenges from the grandchildren of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the revolutionary leader who mobilized millions to end more ...