It’s a shame they can’t both lose
The last time oil-tankers were being shot up in the Persian Gulf, back in the 1980s, it was Saddam Hussein’s brutal tyranny in Iraq versus Ayatollah Khomeini’s revolutionary Islamist regime in Iran,…
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Iran's Islamist Regime: Progressive Sympathies Despite Repression of Leftists
Despite the Islamist dictatorship in Iran having executed Marxists and left-wing revolutionaries who supported Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979, the regime continues to garner sympathy from certain supposedly progressive circles. This article explores the historical paradox of such support.
Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader and representative of the regime's hard-line faction, has died
The successor to Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989, Ali Khamenei embodied the Islamic Republic, setting its political course both domestically and abroad.
NRK's Coverage of Ayatollah Khomeini and the Iranian Revolution
Any fair portrayal of the Islamic Revolution in Iran must also shed light on the conditions that contributed to its occurrence, according to NRK's commentary on Ayatollah Khomeini.
Senan Molony: How Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini helped push Ireland and US together
As the Taoiseach flies to the United States, history shows that it is actually Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini who ironically threw Ireland and America intimately together.
Dalla lega antiaraba alla minaccia nucleare: 50 anni di conflitto e tensioni tra Iran, Usa e Israele
Lo scontro ha origine nel ‘79 con gli slogan dell’ayatollah Khomeini contro “il piccolo e il grande Satana” (lo Stato ebraico e l’America)
Türkiye Declassifies 1964 Intelligence File on Ayatollah Khomeini's Stay
Türkiye's National Intelligence Organization has made public a previously classified document from November 11, 1964, which details the stay of Iranian revolutionary leader Ayatollah Khomeini in Türkiye.
I left Iran at age 12 and never went back because it never felt safe. At 48, I can finally picture returning home.
Noshene Ranjbar left Iran at age 12; now she's envisioning a return home. Courtesy of Noshene Ranjbar Noshene Ranjbar left Iran at age 12 and moved to the US to live with her father in Virginia. Since the death of Iran's supreme leader, she envisions going back to help the country rebuild. She said many diaspora Iranians like her may say goodbye to loved ones and return home. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Noshene Ranjbar, 48, who lives in Arizona. The following has b...
French Intellectuals and Journalists' Blindness to Khomeini and Iranian Revolution in 1978-1979
A historical account details how several prominent French intellectuals and journalists, including Michel Foucault, made significant errors in judgment regarding Ayatollah Khomeini and the Iranian Islamic Revolution.