Ayatollah Khameini

Khomeini’s war: Sunni Islamists taught Shia Iran to hate Israel

The ayatollahs adopted the Muslim Brotherhood’s worldview to make the destruction of the Jewish state the regime’s holy cause. The Shia leadership in Najaf now has the chance to return the Shia world to pacifism

By Hussain Abdul-Hussain

3 min read

Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini (l), smiles at something Yasser Arafat is saying February 18, 1979 in Tehran, Iran. The Ayatollah's son has his hand on Arafat's shoulder. (Image: Alamy)

A photo Ayatollah Ali Khameini in Iran (Getty Images)

Ayatollah Khameini

Khamenei names successors as Israeli strikes in Iran intensify

By JC Reporter

1 min read

Iran

Israeli military source claims Iran’s military leadership is ‘on the run’

By Yaakov Lappin

3 min read

Iran

Israeli secret services ‘used fake phone call’ to lure Iran’s air force elite to their deaths

By JC Reporter

2 min read

The live show moments before the Israeli strike (Image: X)

Iran

Israel strikes Iranian state TV station while show is live on air

By JC Reporter

1 min read

Israeli F-35s and F-15s refueling mid-air with a KC-707 tanker. (Image: IDF)

By Kasra Aarabi

The Syria-isation of Iran: Why the Islamic Republic could soon share the Assad regime’s fate

4 min read

Iranian demonstrators taking to the streets of Tehran during a protest for Mahsa Amini on September 21, 2022, days after she was killed in police custody following her arrest by the country's morality police. (Image: Getty)

By Ellie Borhan

Khamenei’s war can’t save him from his own people

4 min read

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Tel Aviv hit by multiple Iranian rockets as Ayatollah promises retribution

Israeli defence systems engaged multiple missiles from Iran after the IDF killed several key IRGC commanders

By JC Reporter

1 min read

June 13, 2025 18:58

Fire and smoke rise from a building, reportedly hit by a missile fired from Iran, in central Tel Aviv on June 13, 2025. Iran fired a barrage of ballistic missiles at Israel in a counter-strike in the evening on June 13, after an unprecedented onslaught hammered the Islamic republic's top military brass and targeted its nuclear facilities and bases. (Photo by Jack GUEZ / AFP) (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Why Israel attacked Iran

A country that has repeatedly shown its intent to destroy the Jewish state was – in Israel’s view – days away from getting a nuclear bomb

By Nathan Jeffay

3 min read

June 13, 2025 11:38

People look over damage to buildings following Israeli airstrikes on June 13, 2025 in Tehran, Iran. (Photo by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)

Argentina seeks arrest of Iranian Supreme Leader for 1994 bombing

Ali Khamenei ‘led the decision to carry out a bomb attack and issued an executive order or fatwa to carry it out’, prosecutor Sebastián Basso said

By JC Reporter

1 min read

April 10, 2025 13:21

People hold placards with portraits of victims of the terrorist bombing attack against the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) Jewish community centre that killed 85 people and injured 300 during the commemoration of its 23rd anniversary, in Buenos Aires, July 18, 2017 (Credit: JUAN MABROMATA/AFP via Getty Images)

By Kasra Aarabi

Iran’s Khameini will try to run down the nuclear clock

Amid domestic unrest over the economy and fury from the hard base, Iran may be prone to miscalculations, recklessness and strategic errors

5 min read

April 3, 2025 14:49

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been is under pressure to balance his regime's line with US pressure on its nuclear programme (Image: Getty)

By Emanuele Ottolenghi

US policy toward the regime is: nuclear surrender or else

Trump has redefined American goals at a time of Iranian weakness

3 min read

April 3, 2025 14:40

Donald Trump has redefined the US' goals when it comes to Iran (Image: Getty)

London Islamic centre brazenly showed Ayatollah’s ‘intifada’ rant despite Charity Commission probe

The Islamic Centre of England, based in Maida Vale, is under investigation

By Jane Prinsley

8 min read

February 7, 2025 11:34

The Islamic Centre of England in Maida Vale (Marc Morris)

Revealed: ‘Jihadi lioness’ has been hosted by more London charities

Syeda Umme Farwa runs her own Islamic charity – located minutes from a synagogue – where she reportedly memorialised Iranian terrors leader as ‘martyrs’

By Jane Prinsley

5 min read

January 29, 2025 11:45