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Reformist President-elect Pezeshkian promises to serve all Iranians in a victory speech
July 06, 2024 10:12 pm
Pezeshkian, a reformist candidate, spoke Saturday at the the mausoleum of the late Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, addressing journalists in a chaotic event.
December 5, 1982, Forty Years Ago: Congress (I) split
December 04, 2022 11:08 pm
The Congress (I) in Gujarat was split with dissidents in the party sending in their resignations disregarding a high voltage pressure from the high command and its last minute conciliation efforts.
Iran’s loyal security forces protect ruling system that protesters want to topple
October 17, 2022 1:26 pm
With hundreds of thousands of members today, the Guard is Iran’s most powerful military force as well as a major player in its economy.
Zan, Zendegi, Azadi: Young Iranians are dreaming again
October 15, 2022 4:37 pm
After three decades of broken promises, many Iranians no longer trust their government. The slogan popularised during the ongoing protest, “women, life and freedom”, embodies the connection of the women’s rights movement with other economic and social issues
Salman Rushdie at Express Idea Exchange in 2013: ‘Yes, I would write The Satanic Verses again...people define their identity not by what they love but what they hate’
August 14, 2022 7:36 am
Salman Rushdie was referring to his 1988 novel that had set off a series of death threats against him and forced him to live in hiding for nearly a decade following the pronouncement of a fatwa against him by Iran’s religious leader Ayatollah Khomeini.
Abolhassan Banisadr, Iran's first president after 1979 revolution, dies
October 09, 2021 4:23 pm
Banisadr never consolidated his grip on the government he supposedly led as events far beyond his control, like the US Embassy hostage crisis and the invasion of Iran by Iraq, only added to the tumult that followed the revolution.
Iran starts marking 40th anniversary of Islamic Revolution
February 01, 2019 5:07 pm
The climactic events that year in Iran - where footage of revolutionaries in the streets gave way to black-and-white images of blindfolded American hostages in the U.S. Embassy hostage crisis months later - helped shape today's Middle East.
The Revolutionary Ride book review: The Price of Happiness
November 10, 2018 1:33 am
Next to him is Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who, unlike Khomeini, smiles shyly and offers Pryce a cuddly “Father Christmas” look — which is a respite, and the beginning of all good things.
Iran arrests seven suspects linked to Tehran attacks killing 17
June 10, 2017 12:54 pm
Islamic State claimed responsibility for the suicide bombings and gun attacks on parliament and the mausoleum of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
Iran says Donald Trump reaction to attacks 'repugnant'
June 08, 2017 12:33 pm
IS has threatened to step up recruitment within Iran, releasing its first Persian-language video in March in which it threatened to "conquer Iran and restore it to the Sunni Muslim nation as it was before."
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