God Almighty blessed humans with intellect

Imam Khomeini through his theological works explained that God, the Almighty sent the prophets and awliya [the friends of God, saints, holy men] to guide people and to help them to reform themselves

Imam Khomeini revived Ashura values and culture in contemporary history

Hojjat-al-Islam Ali Komsari, the acting head of the institute for compilation and publication of Imam Khomeini's works has described the late founder of the Islamic Republic as a real revivalist who revived the values and culture of Ashura in contemporary era and history.

Iran remembers 1953 US-led coup against then Iran PM

Iran is remembering the anniversary of the 1953 coup against the government of then democratically-elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq.

US, NATO talked of democracy, war on terror but only sought ‘own interests’ in Afghanistan

In a post on his official Twitter page on Wednesday, Mohammad Javad Zarif hit out at Washington and the US-led military alliance of NATO for boasting about their efforts to help democracy and war on terror, saying the events in Afghanistan proved they even failed in their declared bid.

Muharram rituals organizers threatened by Bahraini authorities

In 680 AD, on Ashoura- the tenth day of the holy month of Muharram- Husain Ibn Ali, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad and the third Imam of Shia Muslims, was martyred in the desert of Karbala, located in contemporary Iraq.

Faithless people become proud of their evil deeds, Imam Khomeini explained

The bad deeds of unbelievers, hypocrites, polytheists, atheists, villains, sinners, and transgressors occasionally reach such a point when they become proud of their evil deeds and think highly of themselves.

The chain of events that ended in February 1979 with the overthrow of the Pahlavi regime

This world is too insignificant to be worthy of love, Imam Khomeini stressed

Imam Khomeini stressed that this world, with all its superficial splendor and glitter is too insignificant to be worthy of love.