TEHRAN, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Demonstrators took to the streets of Tehran following Friday prayers to protest reformers who vandalized pictures of Ayatollah Khomeini, state media said.
TEHRAN, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- An opposition cleric in Iran said the government was disrespecting the Islamic republic by exploiting the vandalism of pictures of Ayatollah Khomeini.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- Concern over political corruption in the office of Iran's supreme leader suggests Ali Khamenei may be the last person to hold the position, an analyst said.
TEHRAN, June 26 (UPI) -- Unrest in the wake of the Iranian election has moved from a challenge to the election results to one of the political system, The Wall Street Journal reports.
BAGHDAD, June 12 (UPI) -- The fifth trial by the Iraqi High Tribunal begins July 21 in the 1999 assassination of Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr.
BAGHDAD, July 19 (UPI) -- The most influential Shiite cleric in Iraq says the slaughter of hundreds of civilians by suicide bombers points to a "genocidal war" threatening the country.
NAJAF, Iraq, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- Four senior Iraqi Shia Muslim clerics said Saturday armed resistance is not the way to protest the continued presence of U.S.-led forces.
TEHRAN, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- Iran's highest-ranking Iranian cleric believes the country's Guardian Council is manipulating the law, and says it is a betrayal of the revolution. Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, who led the 1979 Islamic Revolution along with Ayatollah Ruholla Kho
NAJAF, Iraq, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- Shiite leaders in Iraq's holy city of Najaf say a leading cleric escaped an assassination attempt but three others died in the incident, BBC reported Sunday.
