The Ayatollah Khomeini, the current regime’s founder, issued a fatwa for Rushdie’s murder in 1989. A bounty, raised in recent years, stood at approximately $3 million at the time of the ...

Khomeini was a marja or marja al-taqlid ("source of emulation", also known as a Grand Ayatollah) in Twelver Shi'a Islam, but is most famous for his political role. In his writings and preachings ...

Only the second Supreme Leader since the Islamic revolution of 1979, Khamenei was a close ally of Khomeini ... newspaper he had a stable of 100 horses, several palaces, collected antique walking ...