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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 429

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini

Illustrative: People line up to vote in the presidential election at a polling station in Tehran, Iran, Friday, June 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
August 15, 2023, 12:35 pm
Record number of candidates register for Iranian parliamentary elections
Nearly 49,000 people file paperwork to run for parliament, though all contenders must be approved by 12-member Guardian Council
By AP
Police officers control the scene, around of shrine of late Iranian revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, after an assault by several attackers just outside Tehran, Iran, June 7, 2017. (Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)
April 26, 2023, 3:08 pm
Iran court issues $312.9M judgement against US for 2017 Islamic State attack
Amid rising tensions between foes, decision blames former presidents Bush and Obama, CIA, Treasury and others for having ‘central role’ in directing terrorist attacks in country
By Jon Gambrell
A cleric walks in front of the Fatima Masumeh Shrine in Qom, Iran, February 7, 2023. (AP/Vahid Salemi)
February 21, 2023, 10:49 am
Even in Shiite heartland of Qom, Iranians quietly call for change
Though many support theocratic regime, mandatory hijab, some residents say anti-government protesters treated too harshly, women who flout dress code should be warned, not arrested
By AP
A man stands by as what seems to be the former home, now turned museum, of Iran's first supreme leader Ruhollah Khomeini being set on fire by protesters, in Khomein, Iran, on November 17, 2022. (Twitter/screenshot: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 18, 2022, 1:27 pm
Iranians seen setting fire to ancestral home of Islamic Republic founder Khomeini
In video footage, jubilant protesters march alongside the building as it’s engulfed by flames; hundreds protest against regime at boy’s funeral
By ToI Staff
Salman Rushdie in New York, November 15, 2017. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
October 23, 2022, 7:39 pm
Salman Rushdie ‘going to live’ but has lost use of eye and hand, says agent
Literary representative for ‘The Satanic Verses’ author tells newspaper he suffered wounds to his neck, chest and torso in ‘brutal attack’ in New York in August
By AP
Iranian dissident and cleric Ali Tehrani, brother-in-law of supreme leader Ali Khamenei, died in Tehran aged 96, October 20, 2022 (Screenshot/Youtube; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
October 20, 2022, 10:55 pm
Iran supreme leader’s brother-in-law, a critic of the Islamic Republic, dies at 96
Ali Tehrani publicly opposed current regime and Shah’s monarchy before that, said ‘we should have put the Iranian republic to the vote’ after 1979 revolution
By AFP
Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev waves from the Red Square tribune during a Revolution Day celebration, in Moscow, Soviet Union, Nov. 7, 1989. (AP Photo/Boris Yurchenko)
August 31, 2022, 6:26 pm
In 1989 letter, Iran’s Khomeini invited Gorbachev to embrace Islam
Founder of Islamic Republic appealed to Soviet leader to ‘seriously study’ the religion in order to ‘resolve the fundamental problems of humanity’
By AFP
Hadi Matar, 24, arrives for an arraignment in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, New York, August 13, 2022. Matar is accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against 'Satanic Verses' author Salman Rushdie. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
August 18, 2022, 2:35 am
Rushdie attacker ‘surprised’ author survived, praises Khomeini
Hadi Matar tells NY Post from jail that he was not in touch with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, but refuses to say if attack inspired by Iranian leader’s fatwa
By AFP
Hadi Matar, 24, arrives for an arraignment in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, New York, August 13, 2022. Matar is accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against 'Satanic Verses' author Salman Rushdie. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
August 13, 2022, 10:55 pm
Israel says Rushdie stabbing ‘an attack on our values,’ evidence of Iran’s brutality
Lapid says author’s attempted murder in the US is result of ‘decades of incitement’; deputy FM adds regime in Tehran is a threat to the free world; Biden condemns ‘vicious’ attack
By Jeremy Sharon and Agencies
Blood stains mark a screen as author Salman Rushdie, behind screen, is tended to after he was attacked during a lecture, Friday, August 12, 2022, at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, NY. (AP Photo/Joshua Goodman)
August 13, 2022, 2:46 pm
Iran blamed over stabbing of Rushdie: ‘Result of 30 years of regime’s incitement’
Activists, opposition groups note Iranian supreme leader has reiterated support for Khomeini’s fatwa calling to kill author, say $3 million bounty on his life remains on offer
By Stuart Williams
Law enforcement officers detain a person outside the Chautauqua Institution after author Salman Rushdie was stabbed at the facility, in Chautauqua, New York, August 12, 2022. (Charles Fox via AP)
August 13, 2022, 5:19 am
Rushdie on ventilator after stabbing; suspect said to support Iran’s IRGC
Agent says ‘the news is not good’ as author, subject to Iranian death fatwa, remains in hospital; police arrest Hadi Matar, who reportedly has sympathies for Shia extremists
By Agencies and ToI Staff
In this file photo taken on February 17, 1989, Iranian women are seen holding banners which read 'Holly Koran' and 'Kill Salman Rushdie' during a demonstration against British writer Salman Rushdie in Tehran. (Norbert Schiller/AFP)
August 12, 2022, 11:23 pm
‘No one will any longer dare offend Islam’: The 1989 fatwa against Salman Rushdie
Author stabbed on stage 33 years after Iran’s Khomeini called on followers to rapidly execute him for insulting Islam and the Prophet Muhammad
By Claude CASTERAN
Author Salman Rushdie is tended to after he was attacked during a lecture, August 12, 2022, at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York, about 75 miles (120 km) south of Buffalo. (AP Photo/Joshua Goodman)
August 12, 2022, 6:20 pm
Salman Rushdie, whose writing sparked Iranian death fatwa, stabbed on stage
Agent says author on ventilator, will likely lose an eye; attacker named as Hadi Matar; writer’s 1988 book ‘Satanic Verses’ prompted calls for his death, bounty of over $3 million
By Joshua Goodman
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks on the anniversary of the death of the late founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, shown in the poster at top center, at his mausoleum in Tehran, Iran, June 4, 2022. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)
June 4, 2022, 1:42 pm
Iran’s Khamenei blames recent protests on foreign ‘enemies’
Islamic Republic’s supreme leader accuses Tehran’s opponents of seeking to ‘strike a blow’ amid unrest over deadly building collapse
By ToI Staff and AP
Screenshot taken from a video apparently released by Iranian dissident group Mujahedeen-e-Khalq as evidence of its successful hack of state-owned CCTVs in Tehran. (Screenshot/Twitter)
June 2, 2022, 5:30 pm
Iranian dissident group says it hacked 5,000 surveillance cameras in Tehran
Attack also defaces websites with graphics criticizing the ‘anti-human Khomeini,’ ahead of events marking anniversary of Islamic Republic founder’s death
By AP and ToI Staff
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