Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

Michael Petrou reports on the Iranian author who has lived in Canada for most of the past five years and has been jailed in Tehran

The only Iranian ever to have led his country in battle against the United States has sparked uproar in Iran by seeming to compare recent crackdowns on public dissent to similarly harsh repression enacted by the shah —who was overthrown by the Islamic Revolution in 1979.

A power struggle has broken out between President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

Iran’s regime took the election, but it also set the stage for radical upheaval