Muslims begin Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca

More than two million Muslims from around the globe have converged in the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia to start this year’s Hajj pilgrimage. The annual Hajj pilgrimage started on Sunday.

Imam Khomeini’s scholarly works contain deep insightfulness

Imam Khomeini’s early writing indicate that his primary interest during his early years in the holy city of Qom was gnosis and mysticism.

Imam Khomeini promoted press freedom, wanted media to raise awareness

The founder of the Islamic Republic wanted the press and media to become a source of useful information and to play a role of a mobile schools.Imam Khomeini, the late founder of the Islamic Republic once told a gathering of reporters and journalists that press, radio, TV and printed media must reflect information and current affairs and raise awareness.

Imam Khomeini used to receive journalists with open arms

At least 450 interviews were made with Imam Khomeini just in less than three months during his historic stay in Nofel Loshato(Neauphle-le-Château.

US offering protection to anti-Iran terrorist group

An American nonprofit global policy think tank has recently said that the US-led coalition has been offering protection to the anti-Iran terrorist group Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) since the occupation of Iraq in 2003.

Mersad operation dealt crushing blow to MKO terrorists

Imam Khomeini the founder of the Islamic Republic on several occasions exposed the anti-Iran terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) for its crimes and acts of violence.

The ‘forgotten’ US shootdown of Iranian airliner Flight 655­

Today marks twenty-nine years since the shootdown by the USS Vincennes of Iran Air flight 655, which killed all of the plane’s 290 civilian passengers. This shootdown of a civilian airliner by a US naval ship occurred on July 3, 1988, toward the end of the eight-year Iran-Iraq War.

When did Imam Khomeini establish IRGC and what were its purposes?