Saddam Hussein could have changed everything. In an ironic twist, the Iraqi dictator responsible for countless deaths across ...

While the first three parts of the series explored the history of Shiite Islam and how the lack of an earthly imam formed ...

After the 12-day war in June, the issue of who will succeed Iran's longtime supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has ...

The world may be witnessing Khamenei’s attempt to restore his image—though whether he, or someone else, is behind it remains ...

The remnants of an ancient community face a new age of anxiety after decades of uneasy coexistence with the mullahs’ regime.

The Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the public face of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, won over many supporters in the West despite his brutality. His image as a Muslim saint was in large part the result ...

Ruhollah Khomeini was a Seyyed from a religious family that is descendants of Prophet Mohammad, through the seventh Imam, (Imam Mousa Kazem). His paternal grandfather was Seyyed Ahmad Musavi, whose ...

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini descending from the Air France plane that took him to Tehran in 1979 after 15 years in exile. Credit Gabriel Duval/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Iran’s ...

Iran's resumé against America since the 1979 revolution includes taking hostages, playing a role in the Beirut embassy bombings, funding Taliban and Iraqi proxies and assassination attempts.

Two frontrunners have emerged in the succession discussions, the five insiders said: Khamenei's 56-year-old son Mojtaba, long ...

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