FILE - Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, then Iran's supreme leader, speaks during Friday prayers at Tehran University, July 30, 1999. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili) (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili) DUBAI, United Arab ...

CAIRO (AP) — He is the grandson of an influential Shiite cleric, born in Qom — the heart of religious studies in Iran — and raised in a traditional family that embraced the theocracy. But by his late ...

Preparations for Khamenei’s public funeral, initially delayed at the height of the war, are taking place as Iran and the United States observe a fragile ceasefire after signing a preliminary deal to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The extensive mourning period will see his body transported through cities in both Iran and neighbouring Iraq, in a spectacle that ...

A Times reporter in Iran said the events “surpassed anything I’ve ever witnessed.” By Katrin Bennhold I’m the host of The World. A lot has been happening. Last month, President Trump declared peace in ...

The complex where mourners are paying their respects to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei this weekend is unfinished after nearly 40 years. Critics say it is emblematic of the unfulfilled promises of his rule.

US-Iran LIVE Updates: Mourners gather on the day of a funeral procession for Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed on February 28 in Israeli and U.S. airstrikes, in Tehran, ...

The coffin of former Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has been brought to Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Grand Mosalla ahead of several days of ceremonies across Iran and Iraq to mourn the man who led the ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of mourners began a dayslong funeral on Saturday for Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, beating their chests in sorrow before the glass case ...

In Tehran on Monday, Iranians thronged the funeral procession for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in a U.S.-Israeli airstrike in February. Roben Farzad, host of the podcast Full Disclosure, ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dramatically remolded Iran during more than three decades as supreme leader, turning it into a regional powerhouse and bringing it increasingly ...