Iranian officials say a man fatally shot two prominent hard-line judges in Tehran, both of whom allegedly took part in the ...

Morality was never a consideration. As the author notes, at the end of the decade-long Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s and shortly before his death, Khomeini issued a fatwa resulting in the execution ...

Khomeini had instructed that the executions ... in the 1988 ‘Death Committees’ subsequently became President of Iran before his death in a helicopter crash in May 2024. The two hanging-judges ...

Khamenei continues to resist such notions. In a defiant speech on January 8, he lambasted the U.S. as an imperialist power ...

Iran has never fully acknowledged the executions, apparently carried out on Khomeini’s orders, though some argue that other top officials were effectively in charge in the months before his 1989 ...

An Upper West Sider understands better than most the hell endured by the hostages taken by Hamas from Israel — and their elation upon learning their freedom is near. Barry Rosen “lived in ...