Millions of Muslims begin ‘biggest’ Hajj pilgrimage in years in Mecca

Millions of Muslim worshipers from across the world have started the annual Hajj pilgrimage in the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, with the rituals taking place over a period of several days and culminating in Eid al-Adha (Feast of Sacrifice).

‘Khorramshahr liberation a sweet lesson of resistance, sacrifice’

The liberation of the southwestern city of Khorramshahr during Iraq’s war of aggression against Iran in the 1980s taught everyone the sweet lesson of resistance, sacrifice and martyrdom, says the representative of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei to Khuzestan Province.

Imam Khomeini: I covet the beloved and valiant young people who have sacrificed their lives for the ...

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Spiritual construction has priority over all others, Imam Khomeini explained

Imam Khomeini stressed that the country and the nation are in need of construction, and spiritual construction has priority over all others. The spiritual and physical struggle for the cause of God should begin from the ‘self’; to fight against the internal Satan. This jihad will be the basis of other jihads and struggles.

Iran: Violent attack on al-Aqsa Mosque worshipers reveals inhumane nature of Israel

Iran has censured Israeli forces’ vicious assault on dozens of Palestinian worshipers inside al-Aqsa Mosque, where they were peacefully observing the holy month of Ramadan, saying that the violent raid attests to the inhumane nature of the Tel Aviv regime.

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Iranians protest Charlie Hebdo's defamatory cartoons

Dozens of Iranian protesters have gathered outside France’s embassy in Tehran to express their anger at a French publication after it called for cartoons attacking the Islamic Republic’s top religious and political authority.

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.