In “Memorial Days,” Geraldine Brooks retreats to an island off Australia hoping to pick up the pieces after the sudden death ...

On February 1, 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned from exile and led a national uprising that toppled the Pahlavi regime on February 11 that year.

Khamenei continues to resist such notions. In a defiant speech on January 8, he lambasted the U.S. as an imperialist power and pledged that Iran would continue to “back the resistance in Gaza, the ...

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Tuesday (January 28, 2025) that Gaza had brought Israel "to its knees", in a reference to the recent ceasefire in the Palestinian territory.

Iran strongly condemned on Thursday an "insulting" poster on a bus in a French city depicting supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, state media reported, with relations strained between the two ...

Protests had kicked up in Iran over the shah’s oppressive policies, but Carter continued to support him, fearing the alternative: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Pahlavi fled into exile in January ...

They accuse the authorities under supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of using capital punishment as a tool to instil fear throughout society, particularly in the wake of 2022-2023 nationwide ...

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei claimed on Thursday that Hamas was victorious in the war with Israel, citing the ceasefire announced on Wednesday. "It will be written in books that ...