Mostafa Khamenei

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Mostafa Khamenei

Mostafa Hosseini Khamenei (Persian: سید مصطفی حسینی خامنه‌ای; born 5 February 1965)[1] is an Iranian Twelver Shia cleric[2][3][4] and the oldest son of Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei.[5][6][7]

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Mostafa Hosseini Khamenei

(1965-02-05) 5 February 1965 (age 60)
Mashhad, Imperial State of Iran
Parents
EducationIslamic Seminary of Qom
TitleAyatollah
Alma materQom Seminary
Religious life
ReligionShia Islam
DenominationTwelver
JurisprudenceUsuli
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He is[8] also known as "Hujjatul-Islam/Ayatollah Seyyed Mostafa Khamenei", the son-in-law of Azizollah Khoshvaght (عزیزالله خوشوقت).[9][10][11] He is also the eldest brother of: Mojtaba, Masoud (Mohsen) and Meitham Khamenei.[12]

Mostafa Khamenei, who participated in the Iran–Iraq War,[13][14][15] is a resident of Qom. According to Ahmad Marvi, who is the assistant of seminary communications in Office of the Supreme Leader of Iran:

Seyyed Mostafa Khamenei is teaching in seminary sciences/lessons (Makasib and Kifayah) in Qom. Neither he nor his brothers have a governmental/non-governmental/formal positions; he also doesn't have responsibility in the office of the Supreme Leader, and solely has co-operation in "work publication" segments of the mentioned office. Moreover, his father has prohibited his sons from accepting governmental positions.[16]

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