Ali Khamenei
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Ali Hosseini Khamenei[b] (born 19 April 1939) is an Iranian cleric 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, as well as the second-longest-serving Iranian leader of the last century, after Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.[11]
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علی خامنهای | |||||||||
| File:Ali Khamenei 2024 (3x4 cropped).jpg Khamenei in 2024 | |||||||||
| 2nd Supreme Leader of Iran | |||||||||
| Assumed office 6 August 1989[a] | |||||||||
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| 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[2] | ||||||||
| Majority | 2,800,353 (87.8%)[3] | ||||||||
| 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%)[4] | ||||||||
| Tehran's Friday Prayer Imam | |||||||||
| Assumed office 14 January 1980 | |||||||||
| Appointed by | Ruhollah Khomeini | ||||||||
| Interim Imams | See list
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| Preceded by | Hussein-Ali Montazeri | ||||||||
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| Born | Ali Hosseini Khameneh[5] 19 April 1939 (aged 86) Mashhad, Khorasan, Iran | ||||||||
| Political party | Independent (1989–present) | ||||||||
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| Children | 6 (including Mostafa, Mojtaba, and Masoud)[7] | ||||||||
| Father | Javad Khamenei | ||||||||
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| Residence | House of Leadership | ||||||||
| Education |
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| Website | english | ||||||||
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| Years of service | 1979–1980, 1980–1981 | ||||||||
| Commands | Revolutionary Guards[10] | ||||||||
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| Religion | Islam | ||||||||
| Denomination | Twelver Shiʿa | ||||||||
| Jurisprudence | Ja'fari | ||||||||
| Creed | Usuli | ||||||||
| Main interest(s) | Uṣūl al-Fiqh, Tafsir[8] | ||||||||
| Notable idea(s) | Fatwa against nuclear weapons | ||||||||
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| Teacher | |||||||||
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Ali Khamenei Media
Childhood photo of Seyed Ali Khamenei
- Ali Khamenei in Iranian Revolution protests.jpg
Khamenei in a protest in 1970 in Mashhad.
- Ali Khamenei in military uniform during Iran-Iraq war.jpg
Khamenei in military uniform during the Iran–Iraq War.
- Ayatolla Ali Khamenei in Hospital after Assassination Attempt by khamenei.ir03.jpg
Khamenei in the hospital after the assassination attempt.
Khamenei has shaken hands with his left hand since the unsuccessful assassination.
- Jumu'ah pray Ali Kamenei as Jumu'ah Imam.jpg
Khamenei as Tehran's Friday Prayer Imam in 1979
- Ali Khamenei (right) in trench during Iran-Iraq war.jpg
Khamenei during the Iran-Iraq War
- Ali Khamenei reading Will of Ruhollah Khomeini in Majlis.jpg
Khamenei reading the will of Ruhollah Khomeini in Assembly of Experts
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Ali Khamenei
- Khamenei meets with members of parliament 2022 D.jpeg
A photo of Iranian Supreme Leader Seyyed Ali Khamenei meeting with members of the Islamic Consultative Assembly
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Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran, and his claim of "speaking with God".
- Supreme Leader of Iran Khamenei Denying Holocaust.webm
Khamenei has denied the Holocaust on multiple occasions
Notes
- ↑ Acting: 3 June – 6 August 1989[1]
- ↑ /ˌxɑːməˈneɪ, -ˈniː, ˌkɑː-/ K(H)AH-mə-NAY, -NEE; Persian: سید علی حسینی خامنهای, romanized: Ali Hoseyni Xāmene'i, fa.
References
- ↑ "توضیحات مجلس خبرگان درباره جلسه انتخاب آیتالله خامنهای به عنوان رهبر در سال 1368/ آیتالله گلپایگانی فقط 14 رأی داشت". Entekhab.
- ↑ "1982 Assembly of Experts Election", The Iran Social Science Data Portal, Princeton University Press, 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.
- ↑ "A photo of Identity document of Ayatollah Khamenei". farsi.khamenei.ir (in فارسی). 1 February 2010. Archived from the original on 14 August 2017. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
- ↑ "جامعه روحانيت مبارز جوان ميشود" [Combatant Clergy Association gets younger] (in فارسی). Fararu. 8 July 2012. 118101. Archived from the original on 2 September 2016. Retrieved 25 June 2016.
- ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Identifiers at line 630: attempt to index field 'known_free_doi_registrants_t' (a nil value).
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Velayati, Ali Akbar. "Ayatollah Ali Khamenei". The Great Islamic Encyclopedia (in فارسی). Archived from the original on 11 February 2017. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Raee, Sajjad (Winter 2008). Ardestani, Hussein (ed.). نقش آیتالله خامنهای در دفاع مقدس: سال اول جنگ [Ayatollah Khamanei's Role in the Sacred Defense - During the First Year] (PDF). Negin-e Iran - Quarterly for Studies of Iran–Iraq War (in فارسی). 7 (26): 9–24. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 April 2016. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
- ↑ Detailed biography of Ayatollah Khamenei, Leader of Islamic Revolution, Khamenei.ir, 23 September 2013, archived from the original on 10 April 2016, retrieved 17 March 2016
- ↑ "The Supreme Leader – The Iran Primer". 2 October 2010. Archived from the original on 30 June 2016. Retrieved 1 July 2016.