The ‘forgotten’ US shootdown of Iranian airliner Flight 655­

Today marks twenty-nine years since the shootdown by the USS Vincennes of Iran Air flight 655, which killed all of the plane’s 290 civilian passengers. This shootdown of a civilian airliner by a US naval ship occurred on July 3, 1988, toward the end of the eight-year Iran-Iraq War.

IRGC force shoots down intruding US spy drone

Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has shot down an intruding American spy drone in the country’s southern coastal province of Hormozgan. In a statement issued early Thursday, the IRGC said the US-made Global Hawk surveillance drone was brought down by its Air Force near the Kouh-e Mobarak region — which sits in the central district of Jask County — after the aircraft violated Iranian airspace.

Millions remember Imam Khomeini across the globe

June 4 marks that sorrowful day in the history of the Islamic Republic of Iran on which the Father of the Islamic Revolution left the mortal world for his heavenly abode, leaving a grateful nation in grief.

Significance of reviving International Quds Day from Imam Khomeini's viewpoint

International Quds Day turning into humanitarian event

Quds Day is a far cry from a casual Islamic religious event. It is, indeed, a human rights event open to both Muslim and non-Muslims alike. Millions of people in Iran and other Muslim and non-Muslim countries worldwide hold rallies in solidarity with the Palestinian people.

Idea of achieving Islamic unity started with efforts of Imam Khomeini: Indian Professor

Indian Professor Mahrukh Mirza in an interview with Mehr News agency said in November last year that the main factor which threatens the achievement of Islamic unity is lack of education and unless this is not resolved, unity will never be achieved.

Imam Khomeini defined distinction between divine religions and material doctrines

The followers of material doctrines consider the world in the realm of nature and have no faith and pay no attention to the world beyond this physical world.

Top Iranian stem cell scientist behind bars in US for 7 months without trial

Top Iranian stem cell scientist Dr. Masoud Soleimani has been behind bars in the United States without trial for the past seven months. Back in October last year, Soleimani, a professor and biomedical researcher at the Tarbiat Modares University (TMU) in Tehran, was arrested by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) upon his arrival in the US.