Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has served as the second supreme leader of Iran since 1989. He is a powerful figure in the Middle East ...

In a moment that could have changed Middle Eastern history, Mossad debated assassinating Ayatollah Khomeini—then chose to ...

Minutes has been covering the geopolitical situation in Iranian for almost five decades. Here are some of the reports we've ...

On 16 January 1979, the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, fled to sanctuary in Anwar Sadat’s Egypt. Less than four weeks ...

Iranian dissidents—who once defied the Shah and then the clerics—have united against foreign attacks and have called for a ...

Under the reign of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran, once America and Israel's closest ally in the Middle East, became their ...

They began as quiet scholars. They ended up reshaping the Middle East. The untold story of how Khomeini and Khamenei turned ...

He maintained absolute power through the use of his ruthless secret police, the Savak. Khomeini was forced into exile in 1964, but Khamenei remained in Iran and was arrested six times for his anti ...

On the very first nights of Khomeini's arrival in Tehran, many SAVAK generals were executed, including aphilosopher-scientist named General Hassan Pakravan, who had prevented Khomeini's execution ...

A quarter century before the 1979 revolution, the US and UK helped depose democratically elected Iranian PM Mossadegh.