Ruhollah Khomeini

UK lawyers fight to save nine-year-old boy from deportation to Iran Video: The Rushdie fatwa: Twenty years on, we look back at events surrounding Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwa against Salman Rushdie, and how they shaped multicultural Britain

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...laughter has been officially frowned upon by the religious authorities, perhaps mindful of the maxim attributed to the late Ayatollah Khomeini, the revolution's spiritual leader: "There is no fun in Islam." The difficulties were...

In this article: Tehran, Islam, Ayatollah Khomeini, Associated Press, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and Iran

...we have lost, but also for damage done to our reputation. In this year alone, we lost a chance to destabilize the rule of Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran and gave up our plans to install a missile system to defend Eastern Europe. More...

In this article: Barack Obama, United States, Iran, IP Address, Ayatollah Khomeini, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Akihito, Middle East, Eastern Europe, and Japan

...the seminaries of Qum, Iran's religious capital, over how to abolish the post, the velayat-e faqih, which Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini assumed when he established the Islamic republic in 1979. Khomeini asserted that his role as the ultimate...

In this article: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Supreme Leader, Islam, Iran, God, Prophet Muhammad, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran-Iraq War, and Duke University

...Fla. : "People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook." In 1979, Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini ordered the release of 13 black and/or female American hostages being held at the U.S. Embassy in...

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...seek medical treatment for cancer; he died in exile in Egypt one year later. On February 1, 1979, exiled religious leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned from France to assume control of the revolution and establish himself as Supreme...

In this article: Iran, Reza Shah, United States, Supreme Leader, Mohammad Khatami, Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, International Atomic Energy Agency, and Department of State

...Mirhossein Mousavi. In theory Khamenei can be removed by the 86-man Assembly of Experts, which approved him as successor to Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989. But the system has never been tested. "In the Islamic system, the office and the...

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Tehran's Imam Khomeini airport is operated by the Revolutionary Guards Iran's Revolutionary Guards have won a $2.5bn tender to build a railway route linking the south-eastern port of Chabahar to Iran's rail network. Transport minister...

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...change. American politicians have been slow to recognize the nature of the seismic shift in Iranian politics, but Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's spell over the Iranian people has broken. In 2009, it is not the CIA's coup of 1953, but the...

In this article: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran, Democracy, Anti-Americanism, E mail, Iranian hostage crisis, Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, Hossein-Ali Montazeri, and CIA