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The United States and the European Union signaled Friday that negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program could soon resume for the first time in more than a year, even as a telecommunications network vital to the global banking industry prepared...
Palestinian Hamas premier of Gaza, Ismail Haniya delivers his speech under portraits of Iran's late founder of Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (L) and supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali khamenei (R) during the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic revolution... View Photo »
We hope that the prophecy of the Imam [Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini] regarding the downfall of this regime [Israel] will occur very soon and that we will witness it
WASHINGTON The United States and the European Union signaled Friday that negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program could soon resume for the first time in more than a year, even as a telecommunications network vital to the global banking...
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Ahmadinejad accuses his rivals of breaking laws by insulting him and has threatened them with jail. Defaming top officials is a crime punishable by a maximum two-year prison sentence. Politics in Iran are largely defined by attempts to claim the legacy...
Palestinian Hamas premier of Gaza, Ismail Haniya flashes victory signs under portraits of Iran's late founder of Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (L) and supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali khamenei (R) during the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic revolution... View Photo »
The fatwa also called for “all the intrepid Muslims in the world” to “execute them quickly, wherever they find them.” The U.S. State Department acknowledged the proclamation and issued a statement “condemning this threat in the strongest possible terms.”
By dint of history, Iranians believe that their nation deserves regional preeminence. However, Iran’s foreign policy is also built on the foundations of the theocratic regime and the 1979 revolution. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini bequeathed to his...
Sayyid Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini (Persian: روح الله موسوی خمینی (help·info), pronounced [ruːh-ol-lɑːh-e muːsæviː-je xomejniː])(September 24, 1902 – June 3, 1989) was an Iranian religious leader and scholar, politician, and leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution which saw the overthrow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran. Following the... Full Article
Palestinian Hamas premier of Gaza, Ismail Haniya flashes victory signs under portraits of Iran's late founder of Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (L) and supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali khamenei (R) during the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic revolution in Azadi (Freedom) Square...
View Photo »Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivers his speech under portraits of Iran's late founder of Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (L) and supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (R) during the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic revolution in Azadi (Freedom) Square in southwestern...
View Photo »EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on leaving the office to report, film or take pictures in Tehran. An Iranian family walk past a banner with an image of Iran's late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (R) near a university during Friday...
View Photo »EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on leaving the office to report, film or take pictures in Tehran. An Iranian man walks past a banner with an image of Iran's late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (R) as he arrives at a university to...
View Photo »An Iraqi money dealer counts Iranian rial banknotes bearing a portrait of the late founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, at an exchange office in Baghdad on February 3, 2012. Tens of thousands of Iranian visitors have been finding difficulty in using the...
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View Photo »Members of the Iranian army's air force salute as they re-enact the scene of founder of the Islamic Republic Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's arrival to Iran in 1979 at Merhrabad airport, in Tehran February 1, 2012. Picture taken February 1, 2012.
View Photo »Members of the Iranian army's air force re-enact the scene of founder of the Islamic Republic Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's arrival in Iran in 1979 at Merhrabad airport, in Tehran February 1, 2012. Picture taken February 1, 2012.
View Photo »Members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards attend a ceremony marking the 33th anniversary of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's return from exile at Khomeini's mausoleum in Tehran on February 1, 2012. Bells chimed across Iran to mark the return from exile in 1979, the trigger for a...
View Photo »Iranian soldiers sing during celebrations marking the 33th anniversary of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's return from exile at Khomeini's mausoleum in Tehran on February 1, 2012. Bells chimed across Iran to mark Khomeini's return from exile in 1979, the trigger for a revolution which...
View Photo »Iranian soldiers chant anti-Israeli and anti-US slogans on the first day of celebrations marking the 33th anniversary of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's return from exile at Khomeini's mausoleum in Tehran on February 1, 2012. Bells chimed across Iran to mark Khomeini's return from exile...
View Photo »An Iranian woman visits the shrine of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the late founder of the Islamic republic, during a ceremony marking the 33th anniversary of his return from exile at Khomeini's mausoleum in Tehran on February 1, 2012. Bells chimed across Iran to mark Khomeini's return...
View Photo »Schoolgirls wave Iranian flags during a ceremony marking the 33th anniversary of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's return from exile at Khomeini's mausoleum in Tehran on February 1, 2012. Bells chimed across Iran to mark Khomeini's return from exile in 1979, the trigger for a revolution...
View Photo »An Iranian man holds a picture of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (R) and late founder of the Islamic Republic Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (L) during a protest in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement outside the Swiss embassy which handles US interests in Tehran on October...
View Photo »EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on leaving the office to report, film or take pictures in Tehran. A CCTV camera is installed on the wall above a poster of Iran's Revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (R) and the country's...
View Photo »EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on leaving the office to report, film or take pictures in Tehran. An Iranian worshipper holds a poster with portraits of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Late Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah...
View Photo »EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on their ability to film or take pictures in Tehran. Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (R) and the grandson of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Hassan Khomeini (2nd R), visit his tomb in the...
View Photo »Iranian worshippers hold up posters with portraits of Iran's late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (L) and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during Friday prayers on Jerusalem Day in Tehran August 26, 2011.
View Photo »An Iranian demonstrator holds an anti-Israel placard and a portrait of the Islamic republic's late founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (C) while another protester holds up a portrait of supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during the 'Quds Day' rally, an annual regime-sanctioned...
View Photo »EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on leaving the office to report, film or take pictures in Tehran. Iranian women walk in front of the pictures of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic (R) and Iran's Supreme...
View Photo »EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on leaving the office to report, film or take pictures in Tehran. Iranian women pray beside the shrine of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic, during the anniversary ceremony...
View Photo »Picture shows miniature toy models of the US drone RQ-170 with a slogan quoted by Iran’s late founder of Islamic Republic Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini reading in Farsi, 'we will step on the United states' in Tehran on January 19, 2012. An Iranian company designed the drone and prepares...
View Photo »EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on leaving the office to report, film or take pictures in Tehran. Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei prays as he sits at Iran's Late Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's tomb during a ceremony...
View Photo »The picture illustrates a United States 100-dollar bill bearing the portrait of US statesman, inventor and diplomat Benjamin Franklin next to Iran's various Rial banknotes, bearing a portrait of Iran's late founder of Islamic Republic Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran on January...
View Photo »A worshipper holds an anti-U.S. President Barack Obama placard as he walks under a portrait of Iran's Late Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini during the funeral for nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, who was killed in a bomb blast in Tehran on January 11, after Friday prayers in Tehran...
View Photo »Palestinian Hamas premier of Gaza, Ismail Haniya flashes victory signs under portraits of Iran's late founder of Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (L) and supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali khamenei (R) during the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic revolution in Azadi (Freedom) Square...
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