Ruhollah Khomeini

Iran has threatened to boycott next week's Frankfurt Book Fair because organisers have invited the author Salman Rushdie, who still has a fatwa against him, as a guest speaker.
 

Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned commanders of the elite Revolutionary Guards on Sept.16 to be on alert for "political and cultural" infiltration by the United States.

Millions of commuters used to spending hours in Tehran traffic jams have at least had something nicer to look at during journeys this week: famous works of art.

Advertising boards that normally feature the latest smartphones, home appliances or insurance plans have made way until May 16 for masterpieces by famous artists in a giant urban beautification scheme.

Long-simmering discontent in Ahvaz, a predominantly Arab city of Iran that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein unsuccessfully tried to exploit when he launched the Iran-Iraq war in 1980, exploded on the pitch earlier this month during an Asian Champions League qualifier between the city?s state-owned Foolad FC and al-Hilal of Saudi Arabia.

Several thousand Iranians gathered outside the former US embassy in Tehran on Nov. 4 to mark its storming by students 35 years ago, burning the American flag.
      
In what has become an annual spectacle, demonstrators chanted "Death to America" and "Death to Israel, Death to Britain."       

Eleven Iranians accused of sending insulting SMS text messages about Islamic republic founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini have been arrested in the southern province of Shiraz

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei successfully underwent prostate surgery, official media announced Monday in an unprecedented public statement on his health, which has long been subject to speculation.