The years of spiritual and Intellectual Formation of Imam

Sinister goals and aims of those who oppose the Cultural Revolution

Islamic revolution was totally free from foreign dependence

The late Ayatullah Rouhullah Khomeini of Iran was the most talked of person during 1979 - 1989 period after leading a successful revolution against the powerful Shah Pahlavi who was called the policeman of Persian Gulf.

Leader says Iran's main confrontation is with global hegemony, not a bunch of rioters

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says Iran's battle is not with a group of rioters who have recently wreaked havoc in the country, adding "the main confrontation is with the global hegemony".

Ayatollah Khomeini: A rare encounter with a true revolutionary

(Richard Falk is Albert G Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University and Research Fellow, Orfalea Center of Global Studies )

Imam left no property except ancestral home

Just months after the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979, Imam Khomeini declared his assets details and instructed other relevant government authorities to follow the suit.

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.”

Leader says 1953 coup, not embassy takeover, ‘starting point’ in US-Iran row

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has dismissed as a “lie” the US assertion that the 1979 takeover of their embassy in Tehran is what set off the ongoing dispute between Iran and the United States, saying the "starting point" of the row goes back to the CIA-orchestrated coup of 1953.