Ayatollah Sistani condemns war on Iran, urges immediate ceasefire

Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, top Shia cleric in Iraq, has strongly condemned the ongoing war against Iran and called for an immediate end to the US-Israeli aggression.

President says Iran’s rejection of nuclear weapons based on religious beliefs, fatwa

Imam Khomeini made a denunciation of both the Shah and the United States

During November of 1964, Imam Khomeini made a denunciation of both the Shah and his Western backers especially the United States.

How did the revolution succeed 47 years ago under Imam Khomeini leadership?

Pezeshkian says ‘encouraging' signal received in US talks but Iran ready for any scenario

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has welcomed an “encouraging” signal in indirect talks with the United States about Tehran’s peaceful nuclear program while expressing the country’s readiness for “any potential scenario.”

Imam’s teaching focused often on relevance of religion to practical issues of the day

Imam Khomeini's teaching focused often on the overriding relevance of religion to practical social and political issues of the day.

Imam no longer accepted the idea of a limited monarchy

Logically, in the 1970s, as contrasted with the 1940s, he no longer accepted the idea of a limited monarchy under the Iranian Constitution of 1906-1907, an idea that was clearly evidenced by his book Kashf-e Asrar.

Revolution under Imam Khomeini leadership overthrew Western backed monarchy in Iran

Imam Khomeini has been a Muslim cleric and Marja, and the political leader of the 1979 Islamic Revolution of Iran which overthrew Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran.