Ali Hosseini Khamenei [4] [a] (Persian: علی حسینی خامنه‌ای; born 19 April 1939) [11] [12] is an Iranian cleric and politician who has served as the second supreme leader of Iran since 1989. [13] [14] [15] He previously served as the third president of Iran from 1981 to 1989.

Jan 29, 2025 · Ali Khamenei (born July 15, 1939?, Mashhad, Iran) is an Iranian cleric and politician who served as president of Iran (1981–89) and as that country’s rahbar, or leader, from 1989. A religious figure of some significance, Khamenei was generally addressed with the honorific ayatollah.

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Apr 19, 2024 · Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been the key figure in Iranian political life for more than 40 years, and the country’s political and religious figurehead since 1989. During...

Sep 28, 2024 · Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been taken to a secure location inside Iran amid heightened security, sources told Reuters, a day after Israel killed the head of Iran-backed Lebanese...

Oct 4, 2024 · Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has the final say on all major policies, serves as commander-in-chief of the armed forces and controls the Revolutionary Guard. Mr Khamenei was born into a clerical family in 1939 in Iran's second-largest city Mashhad.

Oct 4, 2024 · Imam Khamenei, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, led the Friday Prayer on Oct. 4, 2024, in the Imam Khomeini (ra) Musalla, following the martyrdom of the Mujahid on the path of God, Martyr Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah, and on the eve of the first anniversary of the epic Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.

Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khamenei (Persian: سید عَلْی حِسْینی خَامِنُهُ ای, romanized: ʿAlī Ḥusaynī Khāminahāī; born 19 April 1939) [5] [6] [7] is an Iranian Shia Islamic scholar and politician who has served as the second supreme leader of Iran since 1989.

1982- Elected President of the Islamic Republic of Iran following the martyrdom of President Mohammad Ali Rajai (Ayatollah Khamenei was himself the target of an assassination attempt at Abu Dhar mosque in Tehran after which he was hospitalized for a few months).

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has led the Islamic regime for more than 30 years. The 84-year-old oversees a top leadership composed of hard-line clerics, after a yearslong...