Scholars' views participating at 35th Islamic unity conference in Tehran

Every year millions of Muslims across the planet celebrate the birth of Prophet Muhammad. Sunni and Shia denominations celebrate this event on two different dates within the same week. The interval between these two dates is annually commemorated as the Islamic Unity Week.

Islamic Revolution, an everlasting role model

Yan Yarpeh, the professor at a Swedish university’s faculty of history of religions

Imam Khomeini marked the beginning of a whole new era for the nation

The Islamic Revolution of 1979 was one of the most important uprisings in modern political history, an event which still shapes the world. After enduring decades of economic exploitation under the British, followed by a CIA and MI6 coup in 1953 to overthrow Iranian PM Mossadegh and replace him with Western-backed monarch the Shah, Iran finally stood up to Britain and the United States. Iranians took to the streets by the millions, regained its sovereignty as well control over its natural resources and dealt a heavy blow to imperialism, setting the stage for resistance and anti-imperialist movements to this day.

Top US officials confess to the incorrect analysis from the events of the Iranian revolution

We neither tolerate oppression nor imposed oppression

In an interview conducted just ahead of the victory of the Islamic Revolution, Imam Khomeini said that we have had never tolerated oppression nor imposed oppression throughout the history.

Imam Khomeini assisted oppressed ones and confronted oppressors

Ali Hassan Moveni, former president Tanzania

Iran, US and UK: 1953 coup d'état revisited

Well, little by little, the Western historians are starting to come to grips with the reality of the 1953 coup staged by the British intelligence agency MI6 and the American CIA against the democratically elected Mossadegh government in Iran.

Imam Khomeini didn’t make any personal gain from revolution and state: Hezbollah Official

In an interview with Al-Manar TV Channel, Sayyed Ibrahim Amin Al-Sayyed added that what Ayatollah Khomeini did provided the revolution with legitimacy, stressing that the Imam did not utilize from the revolution and the state in Iran for personal use.