The Latest Breaking News from Ayatollah Khomeini

Starting out as a journalist, I learned my reporting trade on the foreign desk at The Times, where we burgeoning newshounds scrapped for the chance to assist on the big stories. On one June day in the summer of 1989, though, there were more than enough stories to go round.…

The game was arranged as the Shah of Iran’s son had wanted to watch a British team play in Tehran

For more than a century, the modern women's movement in Iran has been forced to fight for their rights.

There are a staggering 15,000 anti-hijab protesters currently in the custody of Iran's cruel Revolutionary Guard Corps - and lawmakers have voted for them all to be sentenced to death

As protests against head coverings once again shake Iran, there is a disturbing deja vu to discovering what was done to many of these defiant women

Iranian American scholar Pardis Mahdavi was once arrested in Tehran for lecturing about Iran's sexual revolution. She wonders if the country's current wave of protests might result in regime change.

Shouts of “death to the dictator” and “woman, life, freedom” are reverberating throughout the streets of Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman, while in custody of the “morality police” in Tehran.

Already racked by an economic crisis, Iranians have been taking to the streets to express fury over the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of the “morality police” despite a deadly crackdown. It is a case of longstanding anger boiling over – amid intensifying repression since hardline President…

In 1989, Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini called for the author and those involved in the book's publication to be put to death.

WARNING UPSETTING CONTENT: Ayatollah Khomeini - who issued a Fatwa against Salman Rushdie for his Satanic Verses book in 1989 - had issued a similar edict condemning 30,000 of Iran's political prisoners

Iran might not be directly involved in the attack on Rushdie, but it must revoke the fatwa