Leader says US a 'predatory wolf', current government no different

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Khamenei says the current US administration is not different from the former government of president Donald Trump who abandoned an international nuclear deal and unleashed the most draconian sanctions on Iran.

President Raeisi, cabinet members pledge allegiance to Imam Khomeini's ideals

Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi and members of the Cabinet have paid tribute to ideals of the late founder of the Islamic Republic by visiting his holy shrine.

Imam Khomeini was not aggressive at all, but intelligent and knew all political tactics

Peter Shown Latour, the German author

Iran censures terrorist attack on Ashura mourners in Pakistan

Iran’s foreign ministry has condemned a brutal terrorist attack in Pakistan’s Punjab province against commemorative Ashura mourning ceremonies held by local Shia Muslims, expressing deep sympathy with the families of the victims.

Mourning ceremonies being held to mark Ashura worldwide

Ashura is the culmination of a 10-day annual mourning period in the lunar calendar month of Muharram for Imam Hussein (AS), who was martyred along with his 72 companions in the Battle of Karbala in southern Iraq in 680 AD after fighting courageously for justice against the much larger army of the Umayyad caliph, Yazid.

The nightly mourning ceremony to mark Ashura held at Imam Khomeini’s Hosseiniah with the presence ...

Iranian mourners commemorate Tasu’a

Tasu’a, in the Islamic lunar calendar refers to the ninth day of Muharram, a day before Ashura when Imam Hussein (AS), a grandson of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon Him), and his 72 companions were martyred in the Battle of Karbala. Iranian mourners commemorate Tasu’a, on the eve of Ashura, the day marking the martyrdom anniversary of the third Shia Imam, under strict health measures imposed to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.

American journalists wondered how too small Imam’s room was in Neauphel-le Chateau

Extracted from a collection of memoirs about Imam Khomeini