Protesters in Iran have set fire to the ancestral home of the founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ... western city of Izeh for the funeral of a nine-year-old boy, Kian ...

A sermon Friday in Iran by Ayatollah Mohammad Emami Kashani ... The influence is real, massive and growing. More Ruhollah Mousavi Khomeini (Persian: روح الله موسوی خمینی ...

Ruhollah Khomeini, a Shiite cleric, along with his follower Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, led opposition to the Shah and demanded his removal. In 1964, Khomeini was exiled to Iraq, while Khamenei faced ...

Rushdie, 77, lived in hiding for years after Iran's first supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ordered his killing for what he deemed the book's blasphemous nature. The British-American ...