FILE PHOTO: 36th anniversary of the death of the leader of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, at Khomeini's shrine in southern Tehran FILE PHOTO: Ayatollah Ruhollah ...
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who assembled theocratic power in Iran over the decades as its supreme leader and sought to turn it into a regional powerhouse, bringing it into confrontation with Israel and ...
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Death to Ayatollah: Iran's global power delusion

In November 1979, as they seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took American diplomats hostage, Shia Islamic thugs loyal to the Ayatollah Khomeini screamed, "Death to America!" Seizing an embassy is ...