Many clerics issued statements and invited Imam Khomeini (RA) to return to Iran. Even Sharif Emami’s government had expressed its willingness towards the return of the leadership of the revolution to the country. Following his being appointed as prime minister, Bakhtiar, too, invited Imam Khomeini (RA) to return to Iran. Replying to these invitations, Imam Khomeini (RA) pointed out: "I will return to Iran whenever I see as appropriate. My return to Iran is not dependent on being invited by anyone. I will return, whether I am invited or not.”
News ID: 113 Publish Date : 2020/02/08
There's no doubt that welcoming Imam Khomeini on February 1st,1979, was the world's greatest welcoming. Although people had attended in the welcoming ceremony of other clergymen too, but Imam Khomeini's arrival was so important that people had been planning everything for long time.
News ID: 111 Publish Date : 2020/02/04
Coincident with the announcement of Imam Khomeini's upcoming return to Iran, and formation of a welcoming committee, people of every stratum of society, supported it and helped the members, turning it into a public committee, although they were not official members of it. When it was confirmed that Imam was returning to Iran, people from all over the country headed to Tehran, but the settlement of the passionate crowd was one of the most important problems the committee was facing. After the recruitment, with the protection committee starting their job, the trainings were immediately started. Almost 75000 people were organized and some were also trained.
News ID: 103 Publish Date : 2020/02/01
Ayatollah Khamenei’s speech was delivered in the most critical years of the imposed war, during a time when a large campaign led by the United States was directed at the Islamic republic. Nonstop support behind the Saddam regime continued after Resolution 598 and there was a heavy media barrage against the Islamic Republic in Western media.
News ID: 68 Publish Date : 2015/09/26
countries had quite different situations. On one side there was Iran which after the fall of the Shah would see itself free of the rein of domestic and foreign rule and had no relations with world powers. On the other side was Iraq with its reliance on the US and which had started the attack with Western-made weapons.
News ID: 66 Publish Date : 2015/09/28
The US ambassador to Iran believed Sharif Emami made a mistake that more than any other of his mistakes contained lack of realism and sound judgment. He believed that since Imam Khomeini’s presence in the religious city of Najaf was as pain in the Shah’s neck, if he was removed from that city it would damage the plans of Imam Khomeini’s followers. He believed that since Imam Khomeini would make contact with Iranian pilgrims in Iraq and give them his tape records, he if was removed from the area it would make him less accessible to followers.
News ID: 64 Publish Date : 2015/10/06
If we consider the Egyptian Anwar Sadat as the founder of compromise with the Zionist regime of Israel, we should consider Saudi Arabia and its Fahad bin Abdulaziz plan as the follower of the cause and on of the major agents behind the prevalent situations afflicting the people of the occupied Palestinian land. In the meantime, the historic reaction of late leader Imam Khomeini not only laid waste the scheme and the treason, it turned also into a powerful point in the Palestinian fight and the axis of resistance.
News ID: 45 Publish Date : 2015/10/30
Imam Khomeini's death is one of the bitter days for the Iranian people. The images recorded on this day clearly show grief in the face of the people.
News ID: 44 Publish Date : 2016/07/05
Starting late August 1978, Imam Khomeini’s house in Iraq was under siege by Iraqi security forces. The Iraqi Ba’ath party forces would prevent people from visiting him. The situation led Imam Khomeini to decide to leave, which he did in the very October. The book “Imam Khomeini’s Journey to Paris until Return to Iran” published by the Islamic Revolution Documents Center, Imam Khomeini’s son Ahmad related the journey.
News ID: 4 Publish Date : 2016/12/12
Imam Khomeini used to swiftly reject the idea of any sort of reform and would resolutely fight any sort of advantage given by the Pahlavi regime. He dismissed as unacceptable Mohammad Reza Shah’s repentance, saying it was like Pharaoh’s repentance. We also rejected the idea of any transition government. He ridiculed the Shah’s initiative of free election and called it meaningless with the Shah on hand. He said the arrest of state leaders by Mohammad Reza was an amusing game. He said Sharif Emami’s national reconciliation government as well as the national government of Bakhtiar were tricks to stop the revolution. He would directly and strongly attack those who talked of accepting the constitution and would call it treason to Islam.
News ID: 2 Publish Date : 2016/12/22