Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei, who ruled Iran with an iron fist as its supreme leader for nearly four decades, facing off against the US and Israel while crushing dissent and advancing a ...

A massive U.S.-Israeli joint military offensive called “Operation Epic Fury” is underway in Iran, targeting Islamic Republic ...

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in strikes by the U.S. and Israel on Saturday, Iranian state media ...

Seen as an unquestionable authority, he built the Revolutionary Guard into the dominant player in military and internal politics.

The International Atomic Energy Agency will, at Russia’s request, hold an emergency meeting Monday morning on the situation in Iran. Russia has condemned the attacks on Iran and has allied itself ...

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei succeeded the founder of the Islamic Revolution in 1989. This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.

Khomeini died in 1989, and his successor’s life’s work was to keep that revolution alive long after the society it governed had moved on. In this, Khamenei was remarkably, ruthlessly successful. But ...