Khamenei was killed in an epochal attack by the US and Israel on February 28, marking an inflexion point in the 46-year ...

The war in Iran has heightened existing concerns among some service members about the influence of Christian nationalism on the military.

The council has temporarily assumed the duties of the supreme leader until a new one is appointed by the Assembly of Experts – an elected body of 88 clerics. The assembly is expected to swiftly elect ...

Media reports have cast the son of slain Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as a top candidate for supreme leader. A scholar of Iranian ...

For three years, an Alabama lawmaker has argued that not enough schools say the Pledge of Allegiance or allow students to ...

Texas state Rep. James Talarico, the Democratic Party's new Senate nominee, has a history of making highly controversial ...

Missile launches, chants like “Madad Ya Imam,” and rituals such as the red flag atop the Jamkaran Mosque encoded messages interpretable only by members of the Shi’a community.

Anointing is not permanent. The person anointed can fail to keep a covenant with God and lose the anointing. Look at Trump. The man with all this wealth and power acts in the most anxious, insecure ...

Much of the Western world may wonder what life is like in a theocratic state where the religious leaders run the country.

Iran’s clerical regime now faces the prospect of trying to find a successor to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei following his killing in joint US-Israeli strikes.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei played an important role in the movement that overthrew Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in the 1979 revolution.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who assembled theocratic power in Iran over the decades as its supreme leader and sought to turn it ...