Ali Khamenei
Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khamenei (Persian: سید عَلْی حِسْینی خَامِنُهُ ای; 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. Khamenei is the longest-serving head of state in the Middle East. He was the president of Iran from 1981 to 1989 until the death of Ruhollah Khomeini.
Ali Khamenei | |
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سید عَلْی حِسْینی خَامِنُهُ ای | |
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2nd Supreme Leader of Iran | |
Assumed office 16 August 1989 Acting: 3 June – 16 August 1989 | |
President | |
Preceded by | Ruhollah Khomeini |
3rd President of Iran | |
In office 9 October 1981 – 16 August 1989 | |
Supreme Leader |
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Prime Minister | Mir-Hossein Mousavi |
Preceded by | Mohammad-Ali Rajai |
Succeeded by | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani |
1st Chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council | |
In office 7 February 1988 – 4 June 1989 | |
Appointed by | Ruhollah Khomeini |
Preceded by | Office established |
Succeeded by | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani |
Member of the Assembly of Experts | |
In office 15 August 1983 – 4 June 1989 | |
Constituency | Tehran Province[1] |
Majority | 2,800,353 (87.8%)[2] |
Member of the Islamic Consultative Assembly | |
In office 28 May 1980 – 13 October 1981 | |
Constituency | Tehran, Rey and Shemiranat |
Majority | 1,405,976 (65.8%)[3] |
3rd Tehran's Friday Prayer Imam | |
Assumed office 14 January 1980 | |
Appointed by | Ruhollah Khomeini |
Preceded by | Hussein-Ali Montazeri |
Personal details | |
Born | Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khameneh 19 April 1939 Mashhad, Khorasan, Imperial State of Iran |
Political party | Independent (since 1989) |
Other political affiliations |
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Spouse(s) | Mansoureh Khojasteh Bagherzadeh (m. 1964) |
Children | 6, including Mostafa, Mojtaba, and Masoud[4] |
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Education |
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Signature | ![]() |
Website | khamenei.ir |
Military service | |
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Years of service | 1981–present |
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Commands | Islamic Republic of Iran Army Ground Forces (since 1989) |
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Khamenei is the longest-serving head of state in the Middle East, as well as the second-longest-serving Iranian leader of the last century, after Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.[8]
Ali Khamenei Media
Khamenei in a protest during Iranian Revolution in Mashhad
Khamenei in military uniform during Iran–Iraq War
Khamenei as Tehran's Friday Prayer Imam in 1979
Khamenei reading the will of Ruhollah Khomeini in Assembly of Experts
Khamenei at the Great Conference of Basij members at Azadi Stadium, October 2018
Wrong predictions of the Supreme Leader of Iran regarding the 2024 U.S. elections, Trump's "fate", and threatening to assassinate Donald Trump and the United States Military*commanders by Hajizadeh, the commander of IRGC.
References
- ↑ "1982 Assembly of Experts Election", The Iran Social Science Data Portal, Princeton University, archived from the original on 19 October 2015, retrieved 10 August 2015
- ↑ چه کسی در نخستین انتخابات خبرگان اول شد؟ +جدول. 7 January 2014. http://www.mashreghnews.ir/news/520344.
- ↑ "Parliament members" (in فارسی). Iranian Majlis. Archived from the original on 7 July 2014. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
- ↑ Kazemzadeh, Masoud (n.d.). "Ayatollah Khamenei's Foreign Policy Orientation". Comparative Strategy. 32 (5): 443–458. doi:10.1080/01495933.2013.840208. eISSN 1521-0448. ISSN 0149-5933. S2CID 153558136.
- ↑ "Detailed biography of Ayatollah Khamenei, Leader of Islamic Revolution". Khamenei.ir. 23 September 2013.
- ↑ "The Office of the Supreme Leader, Sayyid Ali Khamenei". Archived from the original on 2009-06-18. Retrieved 2007-04-28.
- ↑ "Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei".
- ↑ "The Supreme Leader – The Iran Primer". 2 October 2010. Archived from the original on 30 June 2016. Retrieved 1 July 2016.