Ruhollah Khomeini

Iran president denounces aide's disqualification from election

2013-05-22 14:25:00

TEHRAN — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday denounced as unjust the supervisory electoral body's disqualification of his top aide from next month's presidential poll and said he plans to appeal to the nation's supreme leader,...

'The Walking' continues the journey of Iranian immigrants

2013-04-18 15:30:00

In "The Walking," a simple and pure young man circles half the world, on foot, by ship and plane, to a place he's longed to see. As a boy growing up in Iranian Kurdistan, Saladin lost himself in the dreamy vision of California he's seen in the movies....

Reward for killing Salman Rushdie upped by Iranian foundation

2012-09-17 12:44:02

Salman Rushdie, freedom writer

2012-10-03 00:00:00

In the 1990s, he was the world-famous novelist few people officially laid eyes on. Of Salman Rushdie's dozen-plus novels, it was "The Satanic Verses" (1988) that raised a hue and cry and sent him undercover: Its supposedly sacrilegious portrayal of the...

Iran reformist cleric wants referendum on nuclear program

2012-07-13 10:41:25

IRAN: Key cleric calls for more prayer, less Web surfing

2011-09-20 16:32:34

Mike Wallace dies at 93; '60 Minutes' pioneer

2012-04-09 00:00:00

As the self-described "black hat" of television's premier newsmagazine "60 Minutes," Mike Wallace crafted a persona of a probing reporter known for his often caustic questioning of sometimes reluctant guests on the program. Beginning in 1968, as one of...

The Iran threat

2011-12-01 00:00:00

U.S. drone 'downed' by Iran may have been lost over Afghanistan

2011-12-04 16:37:22

Author Salman Rushdie hardly alone in raising government concerns

2012-01-17 16:37:42

Even absent, Salman Rushdie stirs controversy at India literary event

2012-01-23 16:38:25

Iran defiant ahead of IAEA nuclear report

2011-11-08 16:37:18

Iranian women attend a ceremony marking the 33th anniversary of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's return from exile at Khomeini's mausoleum in Tehran on February 1, 2012.

2012-07-19 14:40:00

Mike Wallace speaks with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, in Tehran, 27 years after Wallace became the first Western reporter to interview Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini after more than 50 Americans were taken hostage in the country.

2012-04-08 09:59:22

Iranian women attend a ceremony marking the 33th anniversary of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini 's return from exile at Khomeini's mausoleum in Tehran. Bells chimed across Iran to mark Khomeini's return from exile in 1979, the trigger for a revolution which spawned an Islamic state now engulfed in a

2012-02-01 00:00:00