Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ruled three times longer than the late Khomeini and has shaped Iran’s Islamic Republic perhaps even more dramatically.

Lebanon Iran Israel Mideast Wars ... Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, right, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, center, and late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, left, ...

Imam Khomeini (RA) transcended the realm of politics, embodying a spiritual and intellectual identity that profoundly influenced the course of modern Iranian history and the Islamic sphere. On the ...

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, who has spent more than three decades consolidating power by crushing internal threats, now faces his most significant challenge yet as Israel ...

Somewhere deep in a bunker, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is confronting the most momentous decision faced by any Iranian leader since the Revolution of 1979. One phrase sums up his dilemma – must he ...

The 24-year-old was mum on whether he was inspired by the late Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issuing a fatwa, or edict, calling for Rushdie’s death in 1989 over the author ...

MUMBAI - The 36th death anniversary of Ayatollah Ruhullah Moosavi Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, was solemnly commemorated at Kesar Baug Hall in an event titled ...

Iran's supreme leader on Wednesday criticized an initial proposal from the United States in negotiations over Tehran's rapidly advancing nuclear program, though he stopped short of entirely ...

BEIRUT (AP) — The religious edict, or fatwa, urging Muslims to kill Rushdie was issued in 1989 by Iran's then-spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who accused the author of blasphemy ...

Khomeini was the first Islamic cleric to hold the title of “Supreme Leader” in Iran’s Islamic Republic. He was vital in overthrowing Iran’s ruling Shah in the country’s 1979 revolution .

Holding posters of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Lebanon's Hezbollah flag, demonstrators chant slogans in an annual rally in front of the former US Embassy in Tehran, Iran ...