1. Crackdown on Journalists in Iran
(Newsletter)

...erson has been killed after a suspected suicide bomber reportedly blew himself up  near the shrine of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution. CONTINUE... U...

2. Shimon Peres at the World Economic Forum
(Newsletter)

...p_news By Agencies    Saturday, 31 January 2009 Iran's leaders have gathered at the shrine of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to pay tribute to the man who led the country's Islamic revolutio...

3. Timeline: Iran after the election
(News/SReports)

...ral hundred Iranians who have gathered across Tehran. A suicide bomber blows himself up near the shrine of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the 1979 Islamic revolution, in Tehran, Iran's sem...

4. Not Their Finest Hour
(Opinions/Society)

...h and the liberal democracies in the context of the Cold War, fueled the anti-Western mythology upon which Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini based his Islamic revolution in the late 1970s. What the Iranian ...

5. Shut Up about Iran
(Opinions/op-ed)

... — except average Americans and Iranians. In 1979 the Iranians had had enough and, led by the charismatic ayatollah, Ruhollah Khomeini, they again drove the shah from power — this time for good — in t...

6. CIA's Overthrow of Iranian Government in 1953
(Opinions/Society)

...le that when revolution finally broke out in Iran (against Palevi), clerics would lead it." By 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini became so powerful he forced Palevi from the throne and a few mon...

7. This Week in Apocalyptic Propaganda
(Mamblog/Default Category)

...e of the Jewish state came Monday at a ceremony honoring the late founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Accusing Israel of decades of aggression, he said the country ...

8. The Iraqi Shiites
(Opinions/Society)

...who dedicated himself to developing a modernist Shiite ideology that could compete with Marxism. Although Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini developed his theory of clerical rule (vilayat-i faqih) while in ...

9. Iranians rally on 'al-Quds Day'
(Archived/News/Global)

Pro-and anti-government demonstrators have filled the streets of the Iranian capital, Tehran, for coinciding rallies marking the country's annual Palestinian solidarity day.

10. Deaths confirmed in Iran unrest
(Archived/News/Global)

Iran's state media has said at least 13 people were killed amid unrest in Tehran on Saturday, as thousands of protesters clashed with police in the fallout of the disputed presidential election.