How did revolution change post-Revolution Muslim World?

Imam called on Gorbachev to study Islam earnestly

After mentioning these problems and preliminary points, let me call on you to study Islam earnestly, not because Islam and the Muslims may need you but because Islam has exalted universal values which can bring comfort and salvation to all nations and remove the basic problems of mankind, Imam Khomeini wrote in a historic letter to former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

Leader: Terrorist attack on Cheragh holy shrine brings further disgrace on hypocrite, evil Americans

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the terrorist attack in the Shah Cheragh shrine in southern Iran will be recorded in the history of the country, stressing that it brought further disgrace to the United States.

Imam Khomeini successfully kept monitoring Islamic Revolution from exile

Imam Khomeini, a professor of philosophy at Qom seminary who had been exiled in 1964 after speaking out harshly against the shah’s so-called reform program and argued that, with the help of the ulama, the shah could be overthrown.

The years of spiritual and Intellectual Formation of Imam

Islamic revolution was totally free from foreign dependence

The late Ayatullah Rouhullah Khomeini of Iran was the most talked of person during 1979 - 1989 period after leading a successful revolution against the powerful Shah Pahlavi who was called the policeman of Persian Gulf.

Ayatollah Khomeini: A rare encounter with a true revolutionary

(Richard Falk is Albert G Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University and Research Fellow, Orfalea Center of Global Studies )

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.”