Thousands of Iranians in Mashhad attend funeral for martyrs killed in riots

People in the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad have attended the funeral procession of two members of Basij volunteer forces and a soldier, who were killed by rioters days earlier.

Leader says Iran’s progress, prosperity unbearable for arrogant powers

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says arrogant powers are disgruntled by Iran’s scientific advances as tremendous progress being achieved by the Islamic Republic is consigning liberal democracy propagated by the West to history.

A day to oppose global arrogance, national struggle against aggressive powers

In 1979, a group of Iranian university students took over the US embassy, which they maintained had turned into a center of espionage aimed at overthrowing the Islamic Republic in Iran following the country’s Islamic Revolution earlier in 1979. Imam Khomeini stressed, “I have said it times and again that takeover of the US embassy by Muslim youth and students was a natural reaction to the harm being done to our people by America.”

Seyyed Mostafa Khomeini was a scholar of high-caliber

Extracted from a collection of memoirs about Imam

Leader says unipolar world order losing legitimacy, calls for Muslim unity

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the unipolar world order in which one or two states impose their will on other countries is no longer accepted.

36th Islamic Unity Conference kicks off to discuss strategies to global peace

Following the announcement of the week of unity by the founder of the Islamic Republic, Imam Khomeini, and based on the strategy of the Islamic Republic of Iran to strengthen unity among Muslims, it was decided to hold the International Islamic Unity Conference.

Islamophobic hate crimes spike in UK amid rise of far-right

Britain has seen a rise in Islamophobic hate crimes against the backdrop of a tangible hike in the number of far-right politicians “in government,” says the UK-based research and advisory group Cordoba Foundation.

How did Iran under Imam Khomeini leadership become independent?