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]


Ali Khamenei
علی خامنه‌ای
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Khamenei in 2024
2nd Supreme Leader of Iran
Assumed office
6 August 1989[a]
President
Preceded byRuhollah Khomeini
3rd President of Iran
In office
9 October 1981 – 16 August 1989
Supreme Leader
  • Ruhollah Khomeini
  • Himself
Prime MinisterMir-Hossein Mousavi
Preceded byMohammad-Ali Rajai
Succeeded byAkbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
1st Chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council
In office
7 February 1988 – 4 June 1989
Appointed byRuhollah Khomeini
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byAkbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Member of the Assembly of Experts
In office
15 August 1983 – 4 June 1989
ConstituencyTehran Province[2]
Majority2,800,353 (87.8%)[3]
Member of the Islamic Consultative Assembly
In office
28 May 1980 – 13 October 1981
ConstituencyTehran, Rey and Shemiranat
Majority1,405,976 (65.8%)[4]
Tehran's Friday Prayer Imam
Assumed office
14 January 1980
Appointed byRuhollah Khomeini
Interim Imams
Preceded byHussein-Ali Montazeri
Personal details
Born
Ali Hosseini Khameneh[5]

19 April 1939 (aged 86)
Mashhad, Khorasan, Iran
Political partyIndependent (1989–present)
Other political
affiliations
Spouse(s)
(m. 1964)
Children6 (including Mostafa, Mojtaba, and Masoud)[7]
FatherJavad Khamenei
Relatives
ResidenceHouse of Leadership
Education
Websiteenglish.khamenei.ir
Military service
Branch/service
Years of service1979–1980, 1980–1981
CommandsRevolutionary Guards[10]
Battles/wars
Personal
ReligionIslam
DenominationTwelver Shiʿa
JurisprudenceJa'fari
CreedUsuli
Main interest(s)Uṣūl al-Fiqh, Tafsir[8]
Notable idea(s)Fatwa against nuclear weapons
Senior posting
Teacher

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Notes

  1. Acting: 3 June – 6 August 1989[1]
  2. /ˌxɑːməˈn, -ˈn, ˌkɑː-/ K(H)AH-mə-NAY, -⁠NEE; Persian: سید علی حسینی خامنه‌ای, romanized: Ali Hoseyni Xāmene'i, fa.

References

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  3. چه کسی در نخستین انتخابات خبرگان اول شد؟ +جدول. 7 January 2014. http://www.mashreghnews.ir/news/520344. 
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