A New York jury has convicted Hadi Matar of trying to kill Salman Rushdie, a Booker Prize-winning novelist who was seriously ...

Ayatollah Sayyed Ruhollah Mousavi Khomeini was a Muslim cleric and Marja, and the political leader of the 1979 Islamic Revolution of Iran which overthrew Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran.

They are unlikely, however, to hear about a fatwa issued by the late Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini calling for Rushdie’s death, according to District Attorney Jason Schmidt.

Rushdie had worried for his safety since his 1989 novel "The Satanic Verses" was denounced as blasphemous by many Muslims and ...

A jury in western New York convicted Hadi Matar, a 27-year-old from New Jersey, of attempted murder for the stabbing of Indian-born British author Salman Rushdie, The New York Times reported. The ...

Born on or around 1900, Khomeini ruled Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989. A leading religious authority, he became a rallying point for opposition to the Shah, who exiled him to Turkey in 1964.

Ruhollah Khomeini, a Shiite cleric, along with his follower Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, led opposition to the Shah and demanded his removal. In 1964, Khomeini was exiled to Iraq, while Khamenei faced ...

The struggle against the U.S.-supported Shah, spearheaded by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (commonly referred to as Imam Khomeini), had been underway for some years. However, the pace of events ...

The Mujahedin al-Khalq (MKO) formed against the backdrop of the anti-shah opposition in the 1960s and evolved to become an important component of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s revolutionary ...

The Ayatollah Khomeini, the current regime’s founder, issued a fatwa for Rushdie’s murder in 1989. A bounty, raised in recent years, stood at approximately $3 million at the time of the ...

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Tehran regime at its most vulnerable point since its establishment in 1979 Widespread anti-regime protests erupted across Iran on Sunday night as the Islamic Republic marked its 46th anniversary ...