On February 1, 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the late founder of the Islamic Republic returned to Iran after 15 years in exile. Ayatollah Khomeini, officially known as Imam Khomeini inside Iran, was the first religious leader to openly condemn the program of the Shah (Mohammad Reza Pahlavi). He was imprisoned in 1963 and expelled from Iran ...

Salient achievements and progress achieved in the country after the glorious victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979 have invalidated the logic of liberal democracy in the international arena, said Ayatollah Khamenei. Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei made the remarks in a meeting with a number of people from Isfahan ...