Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khamenei is a marja and the second and current Supreme Leader of Iran, in office since 1989. He was previously President of Iran from 1981 to 1989. Read More
Iranian authorities have closed the doors of Shia shrines in the religious cities of Mashhad, Qom and Shahr-e-Rey, amid the rise in the number of coronavirus cases and deaths in the country. ...
Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Saturday warned against any attempt to politicise the recent Ukrainian passenger plane crash that claimed lives of 176 in the outskirts of Tehran more than a week ago, the state media said. ...
US President Donald Trump on Saturday said that the United States is 'closely following' the protests in Tehran that are held after the revelation of Iran military's 'unintentional' downing of a Ukrainian plane last week, adding that humans rights gr ...
A group of Iran demonstrators on Saturday demanded the country's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to step down as protests hit central Tehran after its military mistakenly shot down a Ukrainian plane, killing all 176 people on board last week. ...
Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the aerospace commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), on Saturday said that the IRGC accepts responsibility for the crash of an Ukrainian plane over Iran's airspace. ...
A huge crowd of mourners poured onto the streets of Tehran on Monday to pay their respects to Qassem Soleim, the country's most powerful military commander who was killed in a US air attack in Iraq last week. ...
A huge crowd of mourners gathered in Iraq's capital Baghdad on Saturday to participate in a funeral procession for the Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani, who was killed in a US airstrike ordered by President Donald Trump. ...
