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, ...

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 ...

Jerusalem Day is an annual international day launched by Iran’s first supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1979 in which Iranians and many of their allies show support for the Palestinians.

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 ...

Once allies, Iran and Israel's relationship deteriorated after Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, with Ayatollah Khomeini severing ties and criticising Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories ...

Hadi Matar, the 24-year-old man suspected of stabbing Salman Rushdie onstage last week, praised Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini–the Iranian leader who called for Rushdie’s death more than 30 years ...

TEHRAN – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, as the founder of the Islamic Revolution and innovator of a school of thought, has crossed geographical boundaries and become an important discourse in the world.

The house of the late Ayatollah is now a museum Protesters in Iran have set fire to the ancestral home of the founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini never read Salman Rushdie’s book “The Satanic Verses,” his son Ahmed told me in Tehran, in the early nineteen-nineties.The Iranian leader’s murderous 1989 fatwa ...

Ayatollah Khomeini is said to have been born in the house, which is now a museum that commemorates his life. Khomeini was the leader of Iran's Islamic revolution in 1979, ...