Enjoining Good and Forbidding Evil

Leader says enemies made miscalculation in riots, failed to get Iranians on board

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei highlights the enemies’ “miscalculation” during recent riots in Iran, saying they attempted in vain to rally the Iranians behind their plot to overthrow the government and disintegrate the Islamic Republic.

The danger of being self-centered and neglecting God

ran summons French envoy over ‘insulting’ Charlie Hebdo cartoons

Iran’s foreign ministry on Wednesday summoned the French ambassador in Tehran to protest the insulting act by the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in publishing caricatures of the country’s top religious 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.

The story of delivering Imam Khomeini’s letter to Gorbachev

Imam, most charismatic and popular leader in recent history

Extracted from a collection of memoirs about Imam

Imam strongly reacted against anti-Islamic summit held in Vienna

Extracted from a series of memoirs about Imam Khomeini