President Raeisi urges greater cultural efforts to highlight 15 Khordad uprising

President Ebrahim Raeisi calls for greater cultural work to elucidate the root causes and motives behind a popular 1963 uprising against a US-installed brutal dictator that culminated in the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979.

A Quranic Congress and gathering.

Place and site: Imam Khomeini's holy shrine Organizers: Ministry of educational affairs participants: students, teachers and intellectuals

Tehran hosts 2nd international congress on honoring Ayatollah Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah Yazdi

Tehran has hosted the second international congress on honoring Ayatollah Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah Yazdi.

Seyyed Mostafa Khomeini had an extraordinary personality

In a meeting held in October 2017 with the organizers of Mostafa Khomeini Congress, Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Khamenei hailed the positive merits of the late figure’s character.

More than four decades of Resistance against global arrogance

The triple events of November the 4th began in 1964, when Imam Khomeini, leader of the Islamic revolution of Iran was exiled to Turkey for accusing the King, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi of affiliation with the US. Years later in 1978, tens of Iranian school children were killed as they protested against the Shah for the same reason. And finally, a year later, Students of university age fearing that the revolution would be thwarted by American interference, took over the US embassy in Tehran. Imam Khomeini eventually called the takeover “A second revolution”.Iran-America relations were once famous. But as they turned sour over 40 years ago, the non-relations became as famous and has stuck till today. The turning point was Iran’s Islamic Revolution of 1979. But the western superpower, America, and the west Asian regional power, Iran, were never friends on an equal standing.

Tehran set to host international summit on late Seyyed Mostafa Khomeini

The Iranian capital is set to host an international summit to mark the 40th anniversary of late Seyyed Mostafa Khomeini.

Human rights from Islamic perspective

Outcome of Vienna talks on anti-Iran sanctions: 'Almost nothing'

Talks between Tehran and the other signatories to the 2015 nuclear agreement in Vienna have yielded no results so far, with Iran’s top negotiator saying there was no agreement yet on how sanctions will be removed or the verification of their removal.