Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

FOUND: 3 - You Need To See This

Iran and Britain's history of strained relations

British-Iranian relations, which have been strained for decades, were back in the spotlight after Iranian authorities sentenced to death British-Iranian national Alireza Akbari for spying, charges he denies.

Reuters

Iran shuts French institute to protest 'insulting' Charlie Hebdo cartoons

Iran announced Thursday the closure of a Tehran-based French research institute to protest cartoons of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that were published by French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo.

Radio France Internationale

Sister of Iran's supreme leader slams crackdown on nationwide protests

A sister of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has condemned his crackdown on nationwide protests. This, as former president Mohammed Khatami threw his support behind the protest movement too.

Radio France Internationale

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Sister of Iran's leader condemns his rule, urges Guards to disarm - letter

A sister of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has condemned his crackdown on nationwide protests and called on the widely-feared Revolutionary Guards to lay down their weapons, according to a letter published by her France-based son.

Reuters

Iranian protesters set fire to Ayatollah Khomeini’s ancestral home

Social media images show what is now a museum commemorating the Islamic Republic founder ablaze as protests continue

The Guardian - UK

Videos claim to show home of Iran’s late leader Khomeini on fire

The incident takes place amid a renewed wave of protests in Iran to mark the anniversary of a bloody crackdown in 2019.

Al Jazeera

Iran protests: Social media videos show flames at home of late leader Khomeini

Video clips showing a fire at the ancestral home in Iran of the Islamic Republic's late founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, have appeared on social media, with activists saying it was torched by protesters.

Reuters

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Iran protesters set fire to Khomeini’s home

Protesters in Iran have set fire to the ancestral home of the Islamic republic’s founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini two months into the anti-regime protest movement, images showed on Friday.

Bangkok Post

Under increasing pressure at home, Iran lashes out at rivals abroad

Reports accuse Iran of plotting attacks against Saudi and US targets in the Middle East as tensions rise

The Independent UK

US sanctions Iran-based group that put bounty on Salman Rushdie

Treasury Department accuses the 15 Khordad Foundation of inciting violence by offering a bounty of more than $3m.

Al Jazeera

Salman Rushdie lost sight in one eye following attack, agent says

Salman Rushdie lost sight in one eye and the use of one hand following an attack on stage at a literary event in western New York in August, his agent said.

Reuters

How Shiite Islam reached Tanzania, and Ashoura processions became an annual tradition

Each year, the largest contemporary Muslim pilgrimage takes place in Iraq to remember Imam Hussein, the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson. Before the pandemic, this event reportedly drew more than 30 million people, but in recent years participation declined to more than 14 million. This procession from Najaf to Karbala, where Hussein…

The Conversation

Hunted in Brooklyn: Activist targeted by Iran says attack on Salman Rushdie made her more determined

Maish Alinejad survived two assassination plots in as many years. She talks to Richard Hall about her work and living in safe houses.

The Independent UK

Commentary: Stop linking Rushdie attack to cancel culture

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's fatwa against the author Salman Rushdie in 1989 made clear that the greatest threat to artists, intellectuals and journalists in the modern era comes from authoritarian states. In recent years, the latter have increasingly outsourced violence to murky non-state actors. This grim trend has been underscored by…

Tribune News Service

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: An attack on Rushdie — and free society

In 1989, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, then the supreme leader of Iran, issued a fatwa that called for the killing of author Salman Rushdie for his portrayal of Islam and the Prophet Muhammad in his novel "The Satanic Verses."

WEKU

Since 1989, threats to Salman Rushdie have sparked support and debate on free speech

Last week's attack has reignited debates over free speech, censorship and offensiveness that were already heated back in 1989, when an op-ed by a former president called Rushdie's book an "insult."

Reuters

Salman Rushdie attack suspect pleads not guilty to attempted murder, assault

The man accused of stabbing novelist Salman Rushdie last week in western New York pleaded not guilty to second-degree attempted murder and assault charges on Thursday and was held without bail.

Reuters

Literary institution where Salman Rushdie was attacked ramps up security

Chautauqua Institution, the bucolic New York retreat where Salman Rushdie was attacked last week, has added new security measures, including requiring photo identification and passing through metal detectors prior to entering its venues.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Tribune News Service

Bobby Ghosh: Rushdie attack shows the hard truths of Iran’s soft power

My Iranian friends take great pride in the enormous global influence of their cultural heritage. From the Taj Mahal in India to American greeting cards with quotations from Rumi, the markers of Persian civilization are ancient and modern, sublime and ridiculous — but above all, ubiquitous.

Wales Online

Sir Salman Rushdie’s alleged attacker ‘surprised’ by author’s survival

Hadi Matar pleaded not guilty through his lawyer

The Independent UK

Salman Rushdie attacker 'surprised' the author survived

The man charged with stabbing Salman Rushdie on a lecture stage in western New York said in an interview that he was surprised to learn the author had survived

The Independent UK

Salman Rushdie moderator Henry Reese says he won’t be ‘impeded from doing what we set out to do’

Co-founder of City of Asylum, which offers safety, shelter and support to persecuted writers says they will not be impeded from doing what they set out to do

Reuters

Residents of Rushdie suspect's Lebanese village say incident has little to do with them

Street-side signs in the southern Lebanese village of Yaroun, the ancestral home of the suspect in the stabbing of Salman Rushdie, bear posters of Iran's former supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini who in 1989 issued a fatwa calling for the author's death.

Radio France Internationale

Iran denies any involvement in attack on Salman Rushdie

An Iranian government official has denied that Tehran was involved in the assault on Salman Rushdie, preferring to blame the attack on the author himself and his supporters.

Al Jazeera

Iran says only Salman Rushdie and supporters to blame for attack

Tehran also vehemently denied having any knowledge of or link to the stabbing of the novelist.

1 2 3 4

People

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Chautauqua Institution

53 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.