Leader pays tribute to Imam Khomeini

Closing ceremony organized to mark end of cultural week

A closing ceremony has been held to mark the end of a cultural week which saw several programs, ceremonies and seminars organized about Imam’s ideals.

Imam Khomeini's cultural week and its main objectives

The main objective of the cultural week had been to introduce and promote Imam Khomeini's ideals for people from all walks of life and especially making the youth and young generation with the history of Islamic Revolution.

An important duty

A group of Shia scholars from Turkey holds meeting with Seyyed Hassam Khomeini, Imam's grandson.

A day to oppose global arrogance, national struggle against aggressive powers

In 1979, a group of Iranian university students took over the US embassy, which they maintained had turned into a center of espionage aimed at overthrowing the Islamic Republic in Iran following the country’s Islamic Revolution earlier in 1979. Imam Khomeini stressed, “I have said it times and again that takeover of the US embassy by Muslim youth and students was a natural reaction to the harm being done to our people by America.”

Why did Shah regime send Mostafa Khomeini to exile?

Extracted from a collection of memoirs about Imam

Leader says riots enemy plot devised in ‘clumsy’ reaction to nation’s progress

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the recent scattered riots in several Iranian cities have been devised by enemies as a “clumsy,” “foolish” and “passive” reaction to the Iranian nation’s great moves and innovative progress.