News about Ayatollah Khomeini

The President of Iran Ebrahim Raisi's (pictured, main) 'life is at risk' after he was involved in a helicopter crash near the border with Azerbaijan. A frantic search mission is now underway after the aircraft, which was travelling in Iran's East Azerbaijan province near Jolfa, around 375 miles northwest of the capital Tehran, suffered a 'hard landing' on Sunday, according to Iranian state television. The helicopter was one of a convoy of three and foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, Friday prayer Imam Seyyed Mohammad-Ali Al-Hashem and other high-ranking officials were also reportedly onboard with the president. All army and Iranian guard resources are currently being used in the search efforts for the helicopter.

A popular dissident Iranian rapper has been sentenced to death for supporting protests over the death of a woman arrested for wearing an 'improper' hijab. Toomaj Salehi (pictured) will be hanged for charges linked to a period of nationwide unrest following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody in 2022, Salehi's lawyer told Iranian newspaper Sharq on Wednesday. In public statements, Salehi had vocalised support for the wave of 'Women, Life, Freedom' demonstrations, leading to his arrest in October 2022.

The FKU IK-3 penal colony is a Soviet-era prison camp located deep inside the Arctic Circle, 1,200 miles north-east of Moscow. It is expected to be one of Russia's toughest prisons, with the temperature expected to decrease to minus 28 degrees over the next week. It was revealed on Monday that it was the new home of President Putin's public enemy No. 1 Alexei Navalny. Now we know where he was missing during a 20-day period for his criminal team: in transit from Penal Colony No. 6 - a mere 150 miles from Moscow - to the frozen north.

This was the bizarre case when a man poured yoghurt over the heads of two Iranian women who dared to enter a store without veils. Since a man poured yoghurt over them in a Mashhad shop, the pair are reportedly arrested for flouting Iran's stringent dress code. Footage from the shop in Iran's second-largest city reveals the moment a man confronts a woman and her child over their clothes. After chatting for a few moments, the guy grabs a pot of yoghurt from a shelf and pours it over the women.

According to rights group Amnesty International, children as young as 12 have been exposed to rape, electrocution, and flogging for their role in national demonstrations against the Iranian regime. The nongovernmental group announced today that "Iran's intelligence and security forces have been guilty of horrific crimes of torture, including beatings, flogging, electric shocks, rape, and other sexual assaults against child demonstrators as young as 12 years old,' in order to discourage their involvement in nationwide demonstrations.' The inquiry by Amnesty International exposed "the torture techniques that the Revolutionary Guards, the paramilitary Basij, the Public Security Police, and other intelligence and intelligence agencies used against young people in detention to discipline and shame them and force forced confessions.'

This afternoon, a crowd is gathered in Trafalgar Square in central London in solidarity with anti-government demonstrations in Iran. Hundreds of protesters marched through central London on Sunday, hundreds of protesters marched through central London from Marble Arch to Nelson's Column, draped in pre-revolutionary Iranian flags. Since a 22-year-old Iranian woman named Masha Amini died in police detention in Tehran in September 2022 for allegedly breaking strict hijab laws, protests have been on and out of Iran.

Videos shared on social media showed the former home of 1979 revolutionary king Ayatollah Khomeini being attacked by demonstrators in the central city of Khomein. A few small explosions, possibly petrol bombs, were recorded inside the building, which is now a museum. The marches came following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini on September 16, who was jailed for reportedly violating Iran's stringent dress code for women.

A counter-terrorism expert has warned that jihadist groups are using blasphemy to muzzle free expression. The Batley row (pictured) was an example of how some groups were using blasphemy to prevent free expression, according to William Shawcross, who was brought by the British government to lead the investigation into Prevent counter-terrorism policy. The riot, which took place at Batley Grammar School in West Yorkshire in March last year, saw an RE teacher go into hiding and face death threats for showing his students a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad. Following heated protests from parents and some with the community at the school gates, the teacher fled his home and was suspended, but later cleared when an independent investigation found that he had not intended to cause offence

Despite supporting the fatwa, a former Iranian vice president who lives in the United Kingdom denied any suggestion that he was to blame for Salman Rushdie's brutal stabbing on stage in New York. Sayyid Ata'ollah Mohajerani was instrumental in the launching of a death sentence against Mr Rushdie in 1998 after some Muslims' The Satanic Verses was deemed blasphemous. The 75-year-old author was stabbed 15 times before he was supposed to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution but sustained serious injury to his eye, arm, and liver and is recovering in hospital.

After Salman Rushdie was stabbed on Friday, Iran's state-owned Kayhan newspaper, whose editor has been chosen by the Supreme Leader, called on Sunday for Donald Trump and Mike Pompeo to be attacked by fanatics. According to the editor, "God has revenge on Rushdie." The assault on him has shown that it is not a difficult job to take revenge on Trump and Pompeo, and that starting now, they will be in danger for their lives.' Rushdie, a 75-year-old British-American novelist, was speaking on stage at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York when 24-year-old Hadi Matar rushed onto the platform and stabbed Rushdie up to ten times. Rushdie's uncle said that his father was on a ventilator and was able to talk a few words on Sunday. 'His usual feisty and defiant sense of humor remain intact,' Zafar Rushdie said.

FRANK FUREDI: The most shocking part of Sir Salman Rushdie's assault on Friday isn't that it occurred in the first place. After all, the writer carried a bounty on his head for a long time - a challenge he bore with courage and tenacity. No, what has stunned me is the reaction in some quarters to the alleged murder of a blameless novelist, especially on the Left. A BBC Radio 4 news bulletin said yesterday morning that no reason had been established for the assault.' The Guardian newspaper, which was equally unable to look into the facts in the face, was quick to inform its followers that the savagery's motives were unclear.' Rank absurdity. The attacker's apparent sympathy for Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard and Shia militants was already apparent to anyone with an internet connection.

On Twitter (inset top) by Meer Asif Aziz (right), a Harry Potter writer and free speech activist (left) who has been chastised for her feminist convictions, had expressed her horror at Rushdie's (inset bottom) life in upstate New York when she was first issued the chilling threat on Twitter (inset top) by the Harry Potter author and activist (right). Warner Bros. extended its assistance to Ms Rowling today, saying that the company honors its writers and designers who "bravely voice their ingenuity and viewpoints." 'Warner Bros' was added to a quote.' JK Rowling's threats have been strongly condemned by Discovery. We stand with her and all the writers, storytellers, and designers who bravely state their ingenuity and opinions.'

JK Rowling, a British writer, has been threatened by an Iran-backed Islamist terrorist who appears to have lauded Salman Rushdie's deposed tyrant, and has repeatedly praised Tehran's theocratic tyrant Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and has branded Israel, Ukraine, and India as "terrorist states." On Twitter, the Harry Potter writer and free speech campaigner, who has been mocked by trans activists for her views on gender, expressed her dissatisfaction with Rushdie's life in upstate New York when she was given the chilling warning. Meer Asif Aziz, a'student, social activist, and academic activist based in Karachi, has written tasteless 'jokes' about how to destabilize Israel and branded it and Putin-savage Ukraine, as well as Pakistan's top geopolitical rival India.' In deranged, genocidal tweets, Aziz seems to be defending Iran's Supreme Leader, Khamenei, who often rants about Israel. For example, Aziz responded with a heart emoji in one of Khamenei's posts on the 'oppressive Yazidis.' Rowling, 57, had written about Rushdie's stabbing last night: 'Horrifying news.' Right now, I'm really sick. Allow him to be ok.' Aziz, who had described Rushdie's suspected attacker Hadi Matar, 24, as a'revolutionary Shia fighter,' then threatened, 'Don't be concerned you're next.'

Iran's deranged theocratic tyrant celebrated Salman Rushdie's sickening attack on yesterday, lauding the British author's ostensible knifeman and branding the novelist as 'apostate' and 'heretic,' whose book The Satanic Verses 'blasphemed' the Prophet Muhammad. Onstage in upstate New York more than 30 years after the author and those concerned with the publication of the 1988 novel were stabbed up to 15 times, including once in the neck. Sir Salman went into hiding for a decade under an alias and round-the-clock police watch – fueling world riots and book burnings. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left, This morning, Iran's newspapers were published, correct.

After being stabbed multiple times by a suspect knifeman with alleged sympathies to Iran's draconian ideology, British author JK Rowling condemned the 'horrifying' attempt on Salman Rushdie's life in upstate New York. 'People who menstruate,' the Harry Potter writer, who has been mocked in public by trans activists ever since she objected to the term'people who menstruate,' said on Twitter.' I'm starting to get sick right now. Let him be ok. Rowling, 57, also posted tweets from journalists Stephanie Merritt and Hadley Freeman, who praised Rushdie's courage after the Indian-born author, who is now 75, was forced to go into hiding for a decade after the regime in Tehran issued a fatwa calling for his assassination in 1989.

After being stabbed in the neck on stage (top, thought to be Rushdie) in America, Sir Salman Rushdie was undergoing emergency surgery (airlifted, bottom right). An attacker who came out of the audience as he prepared to give a lecture in western New York state, wounded the celebrated author who has been fighting Islamist death threats for three decades. Witnesses saw the knifeman strike 'ten to fifteen times' in a matter of seconds before Rushdie, 75, collapsed to the ground covered in blood (left, middle). As the writer was being welcomed to a cultural festival before delivering a statement about artistic free expression, the perpetrator, dressed in black and wearing a black mask, stormed the Chautauqua Institution. Hundreds of protesters in the audience erupted and bloodshed (bottom right) could be seen on the stage and surrounding furniture. The Booker Award-winning author was surrounded by workers and fans, some of whom were clutching their legs in an apparent attempt to add blood to his chest. After the horrific attack at 11 a.m. local time, security guards and audience members pinned down the perpetrator on stage (middle) as the audience was encouraged to safely leave the amphitheatre. The perpetrator was apprehended by a New York state trooper (middle, right), and he was arrested by police. Officials would not speculate about the motives.

Salman Rushdie, a writer, was wounded after being stabbed on stage ahead of a speech he was scheduled to deliver in Chautauqua, near Buffalo, on Tuesday. Before speaking on Friday morning, the writer was attacked as he appeared on stage for the CHQ 2022 event. He was in London for a discussion of the United States' asylum for writers and other artists in exile, as well as as a home for creative expression. Rushdie has previously been threatened for his writing, with his book The Satanic Verses causing uproar in 1988. He wrote the Satanic Verses, which culminated in a culture war in 1988 in the United Kingdom, with demonstrations taking place in the UK as well as book burnings. Pakistan banned the book and Ayatollah Khomeini, the book's owner, received a fatwa - a death sentence - in February 1989.