Born in 1962 in Najaf, Iraq, Tabrizian is a high-ranked Shi’a cleric (an ayatollah) and a graduate of major Shi’a seminaries. Although he is currently the most prominent figure in Islamic medicine in ...

Iran’s Revolutionary Court sentenced a pregnant Christian woman to 16 years in prison on Saturday (March 8) and also handed ...

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But in Iran, where same-sex relations can lead to imprisonment, corporal punishment, and even execution, he needed to be sure. When he turned 18, just over a decade ago, Varamini sought guidance ...

President Donald Trump sent a letter to Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, seeking a new deal with Tehran to rest ...

Women will overthrow the Islamic system established in Iran after the 1979 revolution even if the authorities survive a ...

(photo credit: Canva, OFFICIAL KHAMENEI WEBSITE/HANDOUT VIA REUTERS, SHUTTERSTOCK) A number of senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commanders have urged Iran's Supreme Leader ...

Regarding Tunku Varadarajan’s powerful op-ed “This Is the House That Höss Built” (Feb. 5): I can’t recall any other mainstream writer pointing out the fundamental similarity between the ...

Iran’s leaders want to destroy the world as ... wipe out the State of Israel, and impose Shia Islam first on the Muslim world, and then on the entire world. For some time the Sunni Arab world ...

Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations called on the international community to prevent Afghanistan from becoming a safe ...

Trump said Iran can either be handled "militarily or you make a deal." President Donald Trump said he sent a letter to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei about negotiating a nuclear deal ...

Islam is the name of the religion ... Shia women praying at the Grand Mosalla mosque of Tehran, Iran, on the eve of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha. Although there are some important ...