Islamic revolution

Khamenei, who hasn't been seen in months, calls for 'unity among Muslims' in post to Gulf States

Khamenei's message, issued to mark the birth anniversary of Prophet Muhammad, urged the rulers of the Gulf States to "identify their real enemy and understand the plans to confront it."

Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei (right) is seen in a screengrab of an undated video shared by Iranian state media on August 10, 2026
Then-Iranian prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, pictured in 1951.

Rethinking 1953: Deconstructing the myth of Mosaddegh’s democratic legitimacy - opinion

Iranian military commander Mohsen Rezaee attends the funeral ceremonies for Ali Shamkhani, political advisor to Iran’s late supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in airstrikes, in Tehran, Iran, March 14, 2026; illustrative.

Khamenei appoints IRGC founding leaders Rezaee, Zolghadr to senior political positions

Military equipment targeted at an unknown location, during what US CENTCOM says are strikes on Iran, in this video screengrab released July 20.

Trump announces 'historic' Hamas disarmament deal as US-Iran tensions grow


46 Years of tyranny: How Iran's Islamic Revolution betrayed its promises - opinion

Anything that was and is against Western culture and tradition is embraced by certain influential intellectuals.

AN UNDATED picture handed out by the PA shows Palestinian president Yasser Arafat and Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini during a meeting in Tehran

Iranian Imam shot dead in Kazeroun attack in third such killing since 1979

Sabahi had served as the Imam of Kharameh for ten years before returning to Kazeroun in November 2019.

 Hojjatoleslam Va Moslemeen Mohammad Sabahi.

Under pressure, second-class Iranian Jews endorse radical candidate Ghalibaf for president

Tehran-born Iran expert Beni Sabti said that the country's Jewish community had never come out for a candidate before.

 Presidential candidate Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf speaks during a campaign event in Tehran

Biden's Iranian non-deal: The controversial path to engagement - opinion

“Rumors about a nuclear deal, interim or otherwise, are false and misleading,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told journalists in June.

 THEN-US PRESIDENT Barack Obama delivers a statement about the nuclear deal reached between Iran and six major world powers, as his vice president, Joe Biden, looks on, in the East Room of the White House, in July 2015.

Israel received critical Iran intel from IDF soldier's 15-year side project

SWO (res.) E. began monitoring Iranian communications in the 1960s, back when they were still an ally.

 IDF SWO (res.) E. is seen meeting with senior military officials to discuss Iran in this undated photo.

Iran accuses Israel, Western intelligence of planning civil war in Iran - foreign minister

The recent protests have turned into one of the boldest challenges to Iran's clerical leadership since the 1979 revolution.

 Demonstrators stand in front of a wall of the former U.S. embassy with anti-U.S. murals during the 42nd anniversary of the U.S. expulsion from Iran, in Tehran, Iran November 4, 2021

Iran court issues death sentence against man who killed two clerics

Officials said the attacker was a 21-year-old ethnic Uzbek from Afghanistan with radical Sunni views.

 Shiite clerics walk inside the shrine of Imam Ali ,on the first time of religious school called (al-Hawza al-Ilmiyyah) reopening since the the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, ,in the holy city of Najaf, Iraq November 10, 2021.

UAE de facto ruler sees Iran, Islamists as threat to ambitious Gulf safe haven

Mohammed began wielding power in a period when his half-brother President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed, who died on Friday.

 Women walk past the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, June 11, 2021

Revelers chant 'Death to Israel, US, UK' on Iran revolution anniversary

Some attendees held photos of the late general of Iran's elite IRGC, Qasem Soleimani, who was assassinated in an American drone strike in 2020.

Iranians ride on motorcycles as they participate in the celebration of the 43rd anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Tehran, Iran, February 11, 2022.

Iran’s new elite are a major challenge to the West - analysis

New research from the Tony Blair Institute exposes a new class of highly indoctrinated technocrats in Iran.

 Will Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi lead the breakout to military-grade uranium?