President Rouhani says Iran to confront acts of mischief in Persian Gulf

President Hassan Rouhani says Iran has the responsibility for securing the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf and will decisively confront any attempt at destabilizing the strategic waters.

Imam Khomeini revived spirituality, changed political landscape of world

Imam Khomeini, the late founder of the Islamic Republic, was born on the same day of birth anniversary of Hadrat Fatima (PBUH) on the Islamic calendar.

In remembrance of Imam Khomeini

What comes following is a speech and a piece of writing delivered by a Nigerian scholar and originally published in Tehran times in month of June, which coincided with passing anniversary of Imam Khomeini.

Imam Khomeini doesnot consider available interpretations as perfect

Imam Khomeini, leader of contemporary Muslim world, does not consider available interpretations as perfect interpretations and only considers them as exemplifications and definitions,

The ‘forgotten’ US shootdown of Iranian airliner Flight 655­

Today marks twenty-nine years since the shootdown by the USS Vincennes of Iran Air flight 655, which killed all of the plane’s 290 civilian passengers. This shootdown of a civilian airliner by a US naval ship occurred on July 3, 1988, toward the end of the eight-year Iran-Iraq War.

Western-backed groups committed act of terrorism in Iran

The Hafte Tir bombing, which killed over seventy senior Iranian officials, including Chief Justice Dr. Mohammad Beheshti, then Iran's second-highest official. Two months later of the same year, former President Mohammad Ali Rajaei and then-Prime Minister Mohammad Javad Bahonar, also lost their lives in a bombing in the capital, Tehran, 36 years ago.

Judiciary chief and other high-ranking judicial officials pledge allegiance with ideals of Imam ...

Iran lost most prominent revolutionary elements in 1981 bombing

Regarding the Haft-e Tir event, the most important point is that the Islamic Republic lost the most honorable and prominent revolutionary elements in that bombing.