A community portal about Ruhollah Khomeini with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini was a Shi`i Muslim cleric and marja, and the political leader of the 1979 Islamic Revolution...
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A community portal about Ruhollah Khomeini with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini was a Shi`i Muslim cleric and marja, and the political leader of the 1979 Islamic Revolution of Iran which saw the overthrow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran. Following the Revolution, Khomeini became Supreme Leader of Iran—the paramount figure in the political system of the new Islamic Republic—until his death.
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's top dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, a fierce critic of the hardline leadership who denounced June's disputed presidential election as fraudulent, has died at the age of 87. A moderates' website said supporters of Montazeri, an architect of the 1979 Islamic revolution, were flocking to the holy city of Qom to attend his funeral on Monday. A reformist website also reported that opposition supporters were gathering in squares of Tehran on Sunday... Read Full Story
Leading Iranian dissident the Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, once tapped to become Iran's undisputed number one, has died, news agencies reported on Sunday. "Montazeri, 87, died of an illness last night (Saturday)," the ISNA news agency said. Montazeri, once designated as the successor to the founder of the 1979 Islamic revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, was a strong critic of the Iranian regime. He was also a vocal backer of the Iranian opposition which has rejected the re... Read Full Story
Thirty years ago this week hundreds of Iranian students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, touching off a hostage crisis that lasted 444 days and beginning an era of enmity between Iran and the United States that continues today. The studentsÕ action grew out of the Iranian revolution, in which supporters of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini overthrow Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, who had long ruled Iran. After Khomeini, revered in the Muslim world, rose to power in January 1979, he led the... Read Full Story
TEHRAN (Reuters) - A senior cleric urged Iran's factions on Friday to end post-election infighting, suggesting they should focus on trying to "export the revolution" instead. Ayatollah Mohammad Emami Kashani's comments appeared to be an attempt to calm political tension inside Iran after its disputed election in June, which plunged the country into its deepest internal crisis since the 1979 Islamic revolution. But any reference to exporting Shi'ite Iran's revolution may stir unease in nearby... Read Full Story
The exiled Ayatollah Khomeini pictured during prayers at his temporary refuge at Neauphle le Chateau, 25 miles from Paris in December 1978, two months before his return home Ayatollah Khomeini arrived back home on February 1, 1979, after flying in from Paris on an Air France Boeing 747 He was greeted by jubilant crowds who numbered in their millions Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the American-backed Shah, and his wife, Farah, has already fled into exile in Marrakech, Morocco An effigy of the Shay... Read Full Story
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that the nations of the Middle East shared a "deep hatred" of the United States. His latest salvo against Iran's arch-foe came as US President Barack Obama arrived in Cairo to deliver a much-heralded address to the Muslim world in a bid to heal a wide breach between America and Islam. Khamenei spoke on the occasion of the 20th death anniversary of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who led a revolution in 1979 that toppled the US-backed shah and... Read Full Story
March 20 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama issued an
unprecedented videotaped appeal to Iran on Friday offering a
"new beginning" of diplomatic engagement to turn the page on
decades of U.S. policy toward America's longtime foe. Aliakbar Javanfekr, an aide to Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad, responded by saying that Obama should fundamentally
change Washington's policy towards Iran. Obama's appeal, timed to mark the Iranian New Year,
highlighted a sharp shift of tone from former... Read Full Story
March 5 (Reuters) - In its first public overture to Tehran,
the Obama administration plans to invite Iran to an
international conference to map out Afghanistan strategy later
this month, a senior U.S. official said on Thursday. Here are some details of turbulent relations between Iran
and the United States: * 1953 - A COUP: -- In August 1953, the CIA helped orchestrate the overthrow
of Iran's popular prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh, restoring
the Shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, to power... Read Full Story
The wife of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the father of Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution, has died after a long illness, state media reported Sunday. She was 93. Khadijeh Saqafi, who was known as the "mother of the Islamic revolution," died Saturday in Tehran, state TV said. Thousands of people, including Iran's president and supreme leader, attended her funeral at Tehran University on Sunday. "After a lifetime of patience and perseverance, and months of sick health, the dear and... Read Full Story
The BBC has an online slideshow (with audio) that features powerful images from the Iranian revolution of 1979. The revolution ended the reign of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi and saw the return of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini after 14 years in France. To view the slideshow link here. Tags: BBC slideshow , Iranian revolution , 1979 , Ayatollah Khomeini , the Shah , revolution in Iran , anniversary Read Full Story
