Ruhollah Khomeini

Iranian authorities have offered daily Hürriyet journalists a sneak peak of former queen Farah Pahlavi's collection of modern art, which included Picassos, Pollocks and Warhols, preserved next to the portraits of Ayatollah Khomeini.

Millions of commuters used to spending hours in Tehran traffic jams have at least had something nicer to look at during journeys this week: famous works of art.

Advertising boards that normally feature the latest smartphones, home appliances or insurance plans have made way until May 16 for masterpieces by famous artists in a giant urban beautification scheme.

Justice Minister Bekir Bozda? said, ?Fethullah Gülen was planning to stage a return like Khomeini.?

If one year ago, anybody from the main opposition Republican People?s Party (CHP) had said, ?Fethullah Gülen is planning to stage a return like Khomeini,? then Bekir Bozda? would have snapped at him, ?Come on now, you secular paranoiac.?

Several thousand Iranians gathered outside the former US embassy in Tehran on Nov. 4 to mark its storming by students 35 years ago, burning the American flag.
      
In what has become an annual spectacle, demonstrators chanted "Death to America" and "Death to Israel, Death to Britain."       

During his visit to Tehran in January, then-Prime Minister (now President) Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said, “Iran feels like his second home.” Turkey’s political Islam, through the ranks of which Mr.

British Foreign Secretary William Hague says that ‘circumstances are right’ to reopen Britain’s embassy in Iran, which was closed in 2011 after hard-liners overran the building and ransacked it Britain plans to reopen its embassy in Iran, Foreign Secretary William Hague announced June 17, as the West steps up its engagement with Tehran amid rapid jihadist advances in neighboring Ir