In pictures: Eight-year sacred Defense and the eternal epic

President Rouhani says US repeated Saddam miscalculations by waging economic war on Iran

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says the United States unleashed an economic war on Iran after leaving the 2015 nuclear deal based on the same “miscalculations” made by former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in 1980, when he led Iraq into an invasion of Iran.

Summit on Ayatollah Hashemi and eight-year sacred defense

Imam Khomeini denounced US-led coup against Mosadeq

Imam Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic, frequently denounced the US and Britain backed coup in 1950s which weakened democratic powers and replaced monarchy in Iran.