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 | |||||||||
.jpg) Khamenei in 2024 | |||||||||
| 2nd Supreme Leader of Iran | |||||||||
| Assumed office 6 August 1989[a] | |||||||||
| 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[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 | ||||||||
| Military service | |||||||||
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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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Ali Khamenei Media
Childhood photo of Seyed Ali Khamenei
Khamenei in a protest in 1970 in Mashhad.
Khamenei in military uniform during the Iran–Iraq War.
Khamenei in the hospital after the assassination attempt.
Khamenei has shaken hands with his left hand since the unsuccessful assassination.
Khamenei as Tehran's Friday Prayer Imam in 1979
Khamenei during the Iran-Iraq War
Khamenei reading the will of Ruhollah Khomeini in Assembly of Experts
Ali Khamenei
A photo of Iranian Supreme Leader Seyyed Ali Khamenei meeting with members of the Islamic Consultative Assembly
Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran, and his claim of "speaking with God".
Khamenei has denied the Holocaust on multiple occasions
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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.
- ↑ Kazemzadeh, Masoud (2013). "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.
- ↑ 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.