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Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini

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Khamenei assumed power following the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989, inheriting a revolutionary state still consolidating itself.

15 days ago

Annual remembrance in Neauphle-le-Château revives memories of short exile that reshaped Iran, but which locals would rather forget

Every February, members of the Iranian diaspora descend on an abandon…

7 months ago

A clear-eyed account of a difficult, complex man and his self-inflicted fall from grace

The last shah of Iran was a figure from Shakespearean tragedy: outwardly haughty and magnificent, inwardly insec…

8 months ago

Why does a country with large oil reserves feel such a need to have home-grown civil nuclear energy?

  • Middle East crisis – live updates

In October 1978, two leaders of the Iranian opposition to the Brit…

Iran remains the US's adversary in the Middle East since the 1979 Islamic revolution led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

12 months ago

A liberal arts community finds itself hosting the closely-watched trial of man accused of stabbing novelist in 2022

The author Salman Rushdie will this week come face-to-face with the man accused of t…

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