Ali Khamenei

Grand Ayatollah
Sayyid

Ali Khamenei
Grand Ayatollah; Sayyid; ; Ali Khamenei
علی خامنه‌ای
	Khamenei in 2024
2nd Supreme Leader of Iran
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 6 August 1989
President	Himself; Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani; Mohammad Khatami; Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; Hassan Rouhani; Ebrahim Raisi; Mohammad Mokhber (acting); Masoud Pezeshkian;
Preceded by	Ruhollah Khomeini
3rd President of Iran
	In office; 9 October 1981 – 16 August 1989
Supreme Leader	Ruhollah Khomeini; Himself;
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
Majority	2,800,353 (87.8%)
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%)
Tehran's Friday Prayer Imam
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 14 January 1980
Appointed by	Ruhollah Khomeini
Interim Imams	See list Ahmad Jannati; Ahmad Khatami; Kazem Seddiqi; Ali Movahedi-Kermani; Mohammad-Hassan Aboutorabi Fard; Mohammad Javad Haj Ali Akbari;
Preceded by	Hussein-Ali Montazeri
Personal details
Born	Ali Hosseini Khameneh; 19 April 1939; Mashhad, Khorasan, Iran
Political party	Independent (1989–present)
Other political; affiliations	Islamic Republican Party (1979–1987); Combatant Clergy Association (1977–1989);
Spouse(s)	Mansoureh Khojasteh Bagherzadeh (m. 1964)
Children	6 (including Mostafa, Mojtaba, and Masoud)
Father	Javad Khamenei
Relatives	Mohammad Khamenei (brother); Hadi Khamenei (brother); Badri Khamenei (sister);
Residence	House of Leadership
Education	Khorasan Seminary; Najaf Seminary; Qom Seminary;
Website	english.khamenei.ir
Military service
Branch/service	Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps; Irregular Warfare Headquarters;
Years of service	1979–1980, 1980–1981
Commands	Revolutionary Guards
Battles/wars	Iran–Iraq War Operation Samen-ol-A'emeh; ;
Personal
Religion	Islam
Denomination	Twelver Shiʿa
Jurisprudence	Ja'fari
Creed	Usuli
Main interest(s)	Uṣūl al-Fiqh, Tafsir
Notable idea(s)	Fatwa against nuclear weapons
Senior posting
Teacher	Seyyed Hossein Borujerdi; Ruhollah Khomeini;

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]

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". mashreghnews.ir. 7 January 2014. Archived from the original on 10 October 2017.
↑ "Parliament members" (in Persian). 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 Persian). 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 Persian). 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 Persian). 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 Persian). 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.

[2] Acting: 3 June – 6 August 1989^[1]

[12] /ˌxɑːməˈneɪ, -ˈniː, ˌkɑː-/ K(H)AH-mə-NAY, -⁠NEE; Persian: سید علی حسینی خامنه‌ای, romanized: Ali Hoseyni Xāmene'i, fa.

[1] "توضیحات مجلس خبرگان درباره جلسه انتخاب آیت‌الله خامنه‌ای به عنوان رهبر در سال 1368/ آیت‌الله گلپایگانی فقط 14 رأی داشت". Entekhab.

[3] "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

[4] "چه کسی در نخستین انتخابات خبرگان اول شد؟ +جدول". mashreghnews.ir. 7 January 2014. Archived from the original on 10 October 2017.

[5] "Parliament members" (in Persian). Iranian Majlis. Archived from the original on 7 July 2014. Retrieved 28 October 2014.

[cc-6] "A photo of Identity document of Ayatollah Khamenei". farsi.khamenei.ir (in Persian). 1 February 2010. Archived from the original on 14 August 2017. Retrieved 14 January 2018.

[7] "جامعه روحانيت مبارز جوان مي‌شود" [Combatant Clergy Association gets younger] (in Persian). Fararu. 8 July 2012. 118101. Archived from the original on 2 September 2016. Retrieved 25 June 2016.

[8] 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.

[cgie-9] 8.0 ^8.1 ^8.2 Velayati, Ali Akbar. "Ayatollah Ali Khamenei". The Great Islamic Encyclopedia (in Persian). Archived from the original on 11 February 2017. Retrieved 3 April 2017.

[raee-10] 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 Persian). 7 (26): 9–24. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 April 2016. Retrieved 15 January 2018.

[11] 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

[Primer2-13] "The Supreme Leader – The Iran Primer". 2 October 2010. Archived from the original on 30 June 2016. Retrieved 1 July 2016.

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