Ayatollah Sistani urges security forces, protesters to avoid violence

Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the top Shia cleric of Iraq, has urged security forces and protesters to avoid violence, expressing sorrow over some sporadic unrest that has led to several casualties.

Imam Khomeini was forced to leave Najaf on October 6, 1978

In a message addressed to Iranian nation he mentioned the reasons for his flight, “Now that I’m forced to leave adjacency of Imam Ali (PBUH) and do not see my hands free in Islamic territories to serve you the oppressed nation who are attacked by foreigners and their affiliates, and in a situation that they had stopped me from entering Kuwait while I had visa, I fly to France.

Imam Khomeini guided critical period of Islamic movement from Neauphle-le Chateau

And it was from this stage and station that he guided the most critical period of the movement in Iran.A large number of common people and intellectuals around the globe became familiar with the Imam Khomeini’s ideals and dynamic thought and his uprising.

Devotes from neighboring Iraq pay allegiance to Imam Khomeini's ideals

Mawkib organizers, who host and serve the pilgrims of Imam Hussain’s holy shrine during Arbaeen have recently pledged their allegiance to ideals of the late founder of the Islamic Republic.

What do non-Muslims say about Imam Khomeini?

What comes following is a writing piece extracted from Robin Woodsworth Carlsen s book of ‘The Imam and his Islamic Revolution’ Although there has been talk about seeing the leader of the Islamic Republic, the much hated, much revered Ayatollah Khomeini, I had learned that it was better – with something a portentously important as such a visit – to make the effort and then accept what happened.

What was Shah’s request from Imam Khomeini?

Imam’s response to colonel Mowlavi: “I cannot keep quiet when sharia orders me not to."

A group of Syrian professors from various universities visit Jamaran

Our new Saddam Hussein, an editorial by the Washington Post

Once upon a time, there was a brutal and reckless dictator of an oil-rich Arab country who, despite his well-documented excesses, was stroked and supported by the United States and other Western governments. By: Jackson Diehl, deputy Editorial Page editor at The Washington Post