The ‘forgotten’ US shootdown of Iranian airliner Flight 655­

Today marks twenty-nine years since the shootdown by the USS Vincennes of Iran Air flight 655, which killed all of the plane’s 290 civilian passengers. This shootdown of a civilian airliner by a US naval ship occurred on July 3, 1988, toward the end of the eight-year Iran-Iraq War.

The nations which, with enormous populations, vast lands, precious natural sources, a very ...

Founder of Islamic Republic honored to be a follower of Imam Sadiq (PBHH)

Imam Khomeini once said in a historic address that he is honored to be a follower of Imam Sadiq (PBHH), the succor of the holy prophet of Islam.

Iranian nation lost 72 innocent leading figures in 1981 terrorist attack

Dr. Beheshti was considered as a right-hand of the great Imam and the founder of the Islamic Republic on several occasion hailed Beheshti’s knowledge of worldly and religious affairs and his political wisdom.

Iran lost most prominent revolutionary elements in 1981 bombing

Regarding the Haft-e Tir event, the most important point is that the Islamic Republic lost the most honorable and prominent revolutionary elements in that bombing.

Nation will never be intimidated by such atrocities, Imam Khomeini stressed

Imam Khomeini, the Founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran sent a message on the occasion of the martyrdom of one of his best disciples, Ayatollah M. Hosseini Beheshti, and his colleagues in an explosion that took place at the central headquarters of the Islamic Republic Party on June 28th, 1981.

Imam Khomeini stressed alliance between politics and ethics

Imam Khomeini, the late founder of Islamic Republic stressed through his works that ethics and politics are closely associated with each other.

An examination of the new political concepts according to Imam Khomeini with an emphasis on ...

One of the main bases of that new system is people's vote. His Eminence Imam Khomeini as the main and the one who has theorized and has been the ideologue of the Islamic republic system has had a taintless and from all aspects has supported the pillar of republicanism of the system emphasizing the views of the people and that subject is seen vividly in different cross sections of the 33 years of the Islamic revolution during the time of his leadership and even his rightful successor. And that is one of the decisive answers to those who claim and they have to do with the world new democratic systems and they have consistently accused the Islamic republic system of being one dimensional and they call it reactionary, petrified or dictatorial.