Ayatollah Hashemi's passing, a loss to Muslim world

Leader says foreign-backed rioters pretended to protest weaknesses, but sought to destroy strengths

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the enemies sought to destroy Iran’s progress and strengths through the recent violent riots in the country.

Submission is quite a different thing from knowledge, Imam Khomeini explained

According to Imam Khomeini, the submission, which is the gratification and comfort of the heart, is quite a different thing from knowledge, which is the gratification of the mind

Iranians protest Charlie Hebdo's defamatory cartoons

Dozens of Iranian protesters have gathered outside France’s embassy in Tehran to express their anger at a French publication after it called for cartoons attacking the Islamic Republic’s top religious and political authority.

Imam Khomeini stressed need for remembering graces bestowed by God Almighty

Imam Khomeini said: You know that thankfulness is natural and man’s nature commands man to be grateful to his benefactor. If one tries to read the book of his own heart, he will see that this law is written there.

ran summons French envoy over ‘insulting’ Charlie Hebdo cartoons

Iran’s foreign ministry on Wednesday summoned the French ambassador in Tehran to protest the insulting act by the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in publishing caricatures of the country’s top religious authority.

Martyrdom, transfer to a loftier world

Imam called on Gorbachev to study Islam earnestly

After mentioning these problems and preliminary points, let me call on you to study Islam earnestly, not because Islam and the Muslims may need you but because Islam has exalted universal values which can bring comfort and salvation to all nations and remove the basic problems of mankind, Imam Khomeini wrote in a historic letter to former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev.