- Ali Khamenei | Biography, Title, History, Facts | Britannica
Ali Khamenei (b 1939) is an Iranian cleric and politician who served as president of Iran from 1981 to 1989 and has been Iran’s rahbar, or leader, since 1989 A cleric of high institutional rank among the Twelver Shiʿah, Khamenei is generally addressed with the honorific ayatollah
- Ali Khamenei - Wikipedia
Ali Hosseini Khamenei[a] (born 19 April 1939) is an Iranian cleric and politician who has served as the second supreme leader of Iran since 1989
- Who is Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei? All you need to know
Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waves to the crowd as he arrives for a ceremony marking the anniversary of the 1989 death of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini at his
- What to know about Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei | AP News
CAIRO (AP) — Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who crushed internal threats repeatedly during more than three decades in power, now faces his greatest challenge yet His archenemy, Israel, has secured free rein over Iran’s skies and is decimating the country’s military leadership and nuclear program with its punishing air campaign
- Who Is Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader?
From revolutionary aide to supreme leader Born in 1939 into a religious family of modest means in Mashhad, a pilgrimage city in eastern Iran, Mr Khamenei came of age in the years leading up to
- Explained: The life and beliefs of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali . . .
He served as president from 1981 to 1989, steering Iran through the Iran-Iraq War, before succeeding Khomeini as Supreme Leader Khamenei’s early years reveal a man of eclectic tastes He engaged with Iranian intellectuals, absorbing both secular and Islamist ideas
- Who is Irans supreme leader? Ali Khamenei vows not to surrender . . .
Khamenei, 86, has led Iran since the death in 1989 of its founding supreme leader, Ruhollah Khomeini, who had led Iran for 10 years after toppling the country's last shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Khomeini dismissed his would-be successor, Hossein-Ali Montazeri, and instead gave the position to Khamenei, who was elected as the new supreme leader by the Assembly of Experts following Khomeini's death
- Who is Iranian supreme leader Khamenei, the implacable opponent of US . . .
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has spent almost 4 decades as Shi'ite Iran's supreme leader building a regional power to rival the Sunni states across the Gulf and implacably hostile to the U S and Israel
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