Ali khamenei history
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Biography
Childhood
Ayatullah Haajj Sayyid Ali Khamenei is the son of the late Ayatullah Sayyid Jawad Husaini Khamenei. He was born in Mashhad on the 17th of July 1939, which coincides with the 28th of Safar 1358 Hijri Qamari (lunar year). He was the second son of his parents, born into the house of Sayyid Jawad who lived a very simple life, like many of the scholars of his time, and it was from him that the family learned to live in a humble manner.
Remembering his life in his father’s home Ayatullah Khamenei says:
"My father was a well known religious scholar who was very pious and a bit of a recluse. We had a difficult life. I remember that sometimes at night we didn’t have anything in the house for dinner. Nevertheless my mother would try to scrape something up and that dinner would be bread- and-raisins."
"My father’s house - the one that I was born in and lived until about the age of four or five - was about a sixty to seventy square meter home located in the poor area of Mashhad. The house only had one room and a gloomy basement. Whene
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Ali Khamenei
Supreme Leader of Iran since 1989
Not to be confused with his predecessor, Ruhollah Khomeini.
Ali Khamenei | ||
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Khamenei in 2025 | ||
Incumbent | ||
| Assumed office 6 August 1989[nb] | ||
| President | ||
| Preceded by | Ruhollah Khomeini | |
| In office 9 October 1981 – 16 August 1989 | ||
| Supreme Leader | ||
| Prime Minister | Mir-Hossein Mousavi | |
| Preceded by | Mohammad-Ali Rajai | |
| Succeeded by | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani | |
| In office 7 February 1988 – 4 June 1989 | ||
| Appointed by | Ruhollah Khomeini | |
| Preceded by | Office established | |
| Succeeded by | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani | |
| In office 15 August 1983 – 4 June 1989 | ||
| Constituency | Tehran Province[1] | |
| Majority | 2,800,353 (87.8%)[2] | |
| In office 28 May 1980 – 13 October 1981 | ||
| Constituency | Tehran, Rey and Shemiranat | |
| Majority | 1,405,976 (65.8%)[3] | |
Incumbent | ||
| Assumed office 14 January 1980 | ||
| Appointed by | Ruhollah Khomeini | |
| Interim Imams | ||
| Preceded by | Hussein-Ali Montazeri | |
| Born | Ali Hosseini Khameneh[4] Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is Iran's political and religious head Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is Iran's spiritual leader and highest authority. His veto is final in Iranian political affairs. He is widely regarded as the figurehead of the country's conservative establishment and has been described as one of the three defining influences of the revolution. Despite Western focus on President Ahmadinejad since his taking office in 2005, the most important figure in Iran is Ayatollah Khamenei in his role as Supreme Leader. Ayatollah Khamenei has repeatedly denounced the West, and in particular the United States. However, in a speech in 2008 he said that he had "never said that the relations will remain severed forever". That no doubt gave some comfort to US President Barack Obama, who has taken the unprecedented step of making overtures to the Iranian leader. In 1989, Ayatollah Khamenei succeeded the original Supreme Leader and founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini. Before that he was president for
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