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
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. ...
French President Emmanuel Macron and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin called on all parties to exercise restraint to avoid any new escalation after the killing of a top Iranian commander in a US airstrike in Iraq. ...
General Qasem Soleimani, the once reclusive head of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' (IRGC) elite Quds Force who in the past directed inumerable covert operations abroad, has finally emerged in the global limelight following his death in a U ...
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that he was ready to visit Saudi Arabia to help reduce the ongoing tensions between Riyadh and Tehran if suitable conditions existed, a media report said on Tuesday. ...