February 11, 2025 - Rushdie testifies in court against Matar, showing a jury his blinded right eye. On May 16, Matar is found ...

To cut a long story short, Ayatollah Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini — the architect of the 1979 Islamic Revolution and Iran’s first Supreme Leader -- has his roots firmly planted in India's Uttar Pradesh.

The U.S. has a troubled history of interference in Iranian politics in pursuit of Washington's interests. The CIA-backed coup that helped reinstall the pro-Western shah in 1953 was followed by the ...

While the first three parts of the series explored the history of Shiite Islam and how the lack of an earthly imam formed ...

This decision, made quietly, cautiously, and with the best of intentions, reshaped the fate of a nation and the entire region ...

A portrait of Ruhollah Khomeini still hanging in his drawing room, septuagenarian Syed Nihal Kazmi says, “My great-great-great-grandfather Mufti Mohammad Quli Musavi and Syed Ahmad Musavi were ...

Two frontrunners have emerged in the succession discussions, the five insiders said: Khamenei's 56-year-old son Mojtaba, long ...

Kintoor, a village in Uttar Pradesh, India, with ancestral links to Ayatollah Khomeini, responds to the Israel-Iran conflict with calls for peace, reminding the world of its quiet yet powerful ...

The remnants of an ancient community face a new age of anxiety after decades of uneasy coexistence with the mullahs’ regime.

Israel-Iran war, an unexpected village in India has entered global focus. Kintoor, a village in Uttar Pradesh, is the ancestral home of Iran’s first Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. His ...

After the 12-day war in June, the issue of who will succeed Iran's longtime supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has ...

Ali Khamenei, who has led Iran for over 35 years, has gone into hiding in the wake of Israel's surprise attack on Friday.