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Iranians take to the streets to celebrate the news of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's death in Karaj, February 28, 2026. (Social media, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
March 1, 2026, 4:19 pm
‘Freedom, freedom!’: Jubilant crowds across Iran celebrate killing of Khamenei
Videos from Tehran, Isfahan, Shiraz, Abdanan show cheering, impromptu dance parties, fireworks; man shouts ‘hello new world’ as statue of republic founder is toppled in Galleh Dar
By Agencies and ToI Staff
This satellite photo provided by Planet Labs PBC shows Iran paving over Lot 41, where some of those executed in the chaos after Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution were buried, at Behesht-e Zahra cemetery outside Tehran, Iran, August 18, 2025. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)
September 6, 2025, 10:31 am
Iran turns mass grave of 1979 revolution execution victims into a parking lot
Officials acknowledge paving over lot where up to 7,000 ‘hypocrites of the early days’ are thought to be buried, purportedly to facilitate visits to victims of war with Israel
By Jon Gambrell
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addresses Iranian government officials in Tehran on April 15, 2025. (Photo by KHAMENEI.IR / AFP)
June 23, 2025, 7:02 pm
Search for successor to Iran’s Khamenei ramps up amid US, Israeli strikes
Mojtaba Khamenei, hardline son of supreme leader, said to be a frontrunner, alongside Hassan Khomeini, his predecessor’s grandson
By Reuters and ToI Staff
A handout picture provided by the Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's office shows him addressing the nation on the first anniversary of the death of Iran's president Ebrahim Raisi, May 20, 2025. (KHAMENEI.IR / AFP)
June 17, 2025, 4:39 pm
How Iran’s Khamenei, at first dismissed, achieved an iron grip as supreme leader
A surprise choice to succeed his mentor, cleric has nurtured paramilitary forces, overseen a financial empire, made compromises to ensure the regime’s survival. Then came Oct. 7
By Reuters and ToI Staff
This undated photo is said by Iranian media to show Ehsum Bagheri, a judge in the Islamic Republic who was reportedly stabbed to death in the southern city of Shiraz, May 27, 2025. Above him is a portrait of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
May 27, 2025, 11:15 am
Judge stabbed to death in southern Iran, assailants at large, state media says
Ehsum Bagheri, previously a revolutionary court prosecutor, killed on way to work in Shiraz four months after assassination of two justices linked to 1980s ‘death commissions’
By Agencies
British-American author Salman Rushdie attends the 75th National Book Awards at Cipriani Wall Street, New York City, November 20, 2024. (Dimitrios Kambouris / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
February 11, 2025, 1:52 pm
Salman Rushdie’s attacker came ‘dangerously close’ to killing him, prosecutors say
NY court hears testimony from witnesses to 2022 stabbing, when British-American author was targeted over ‘The Satanic Verses’; defendant says ‘free Palestine’ as he enters court
By AFP
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
This still image from video shows Hadi Matar, 24, of Fairview, New Jersey, at left, being escorted from the stage as people tend to author Salman Rushdie, center right, at the Chautauqua Institution, in Chautauqua, New York, Aug. 12, 2022. (AP)
September 15, 2022, 11:09 am
US said to mull sanctions on Iran-linked entities over Rushdie attack
Report says US officials taking nuke deal talks into consideration; 15th Khordad Foundation, semi-official Fars news agency named as groups that offered money for bounty on author
By ToI Staff
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
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