Under which context did Imam Khomeini issue a religious ruling (fatwa) in 1989 against Salman Rushdie, author of the notorious novel "Satanic Verses”?

It is important to denote that this fatwa was a specific and not a general ruling, implying it was only applicable to Rushdie in order to set a precedence- for he was regarded as the first of his

TEHRAN – “The Last Voyage of Poe Blythe”, a novel by American author of young adult and middle-grade fiction Ally Condie, has been published in Persian.

Peydayesh is the publisher of the 2019 book rendered into Persian by Arezu Moqaddas.

Who do you become when you have nothing left to lose? There is something that Poe Blythe, the seventeen-year-old

TEHRAN - The Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation has set a target to collect 18 trillion rials (about $60 million) in zakat (alms) in the current Iranian calendar year (ending March 2023).

In the first quarter of the current Iranian calendar year, 7.94 trillion rials in zakat have been collected, an increase of 44 percent year on year, IRIB quoted

TEHRAN – The Tehran Symphonic Orchestra will perform the symphonic poem “Alamdar” at Vahdat Hall for five nights from September 5.

Composed by Iranian musical prodigy Puria Khadem, “Alamdar” (“The Standard-Bearer”) is about Hazrat Abbas (AS), the brother of Imam Hussein (AS) and the standard-bearer of the Imam’s group in the Ashura battle in 680, du