The late Iranian Supreme Leader suppressed a determined grassroots struggle for self-determination—often with crushing ...

Although a minority, Indian Shias maintained cultural influence through connections with ruling dynasties, balancing local ...

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The grandson of clerics who supported a revolt against a previous dynasty,” Seyyed Ali Hosseini Khamenei wore the black turban signaling direct descent from the Prophet Muhammad. At 19, he fell under ...

Over several centuries, the Shiʿite clergy accumulated authority independent of political rulers until they became one of the ...

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed in an airstrike on his Tehran compound. He was one of the central figures of the system from the earliest days of the 1979 revolution. In the 1980s, he ...

Regardless of who's chosen the next supreme leader, the real power is now likely to be in the hands of the heavily armed force that propped up Khamenei for decades: the IRGC.

The selection of the son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in a strike on his compound on Saturday, could anger ...

Hero and martyr to some, villain and oppressor to others, reactions to Ali Khamenei’s death mirror deeper fault lines within the Muslim world.

The day Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed, the Iranian government called for 40 days of public mourning in line with Shiite ...

Iranian state media confirmed the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sunday amid a continued barrage of US-Israeli air strikes. According to the state-run IRNA news agency, a ...

Ayatollah Khamenei became Iran’s supreme leader in 1989, wielding ultimate religious and political authority over the state ...