Ali Khamenei

Ali Hosseini Khamenei (Persian: عَلَی حِسٍّینَی خَامِنُهَای, romanized: ʿAlī Ḥusaynī Khāminahāī; born 19 April 1939)^[5][6][7] is an Iranian Islamic scholar 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. He was the president of Iran from 1981 to 1989 until the death of Ruhollah Khomeini.

His Excellency The Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei
عَلَی خَامِنُهَای
Khamenei in 2024
2nd Supreme Leader of Iran
Incumbent
Assumed office 16 August 1989 Acting: 3 June – 16 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 (Acting)
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[1]
Majority	2,800,353 (87.8%)[2]
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%)[3]
3rd Tehran's Friday Prayer Imam
Incumbent
Assumed office 14 January 1980
Appointed by	Ruhollah Khomeini
Preceded by	Hussein-Ali Montazeri
Personal details
Born	Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khameneh (1939-04-19) 19 April 1939 (age 85) Mashhad, Khorasan, Imperial State of Iran
Political party	Independent (since 1989)
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[4]
Parents	Javad Khamenei (Father) Khadijeh Mirdamadi [fa] (Mother)
Education	Khorasan Seminary Najaf Seminary Qom Seminary
Signature
Website	khamenei.ir
Military service
Allegiance	Iran
Branch/service	Islamic Republic of Iran Army Ground Forces
Years of service	1981–present
Rank	General Commander-in-chief
Commands	Islamic Republic of Iran Army Ground Forces (since 1989)
Battles/wars	Iran–Iraq War Operation Samen-ol-A'emeh

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.^[8]

References

1. "1982 Assembly of Experts Election", The Iran Social Science Data Portal, Princeton University, archived from the original on 19 October 2015, retrieved 10 August 2015
2. "چه کسی در نخستین انتخابات خبرگان اول شد؟ +جدول". 7 January 2014. Archived from the original on 10 October 2017.
3. "Parliament members" (in Persian). Iranian Majlis. Archived from the original on 7 July 2014. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
4. Kazemzadeh, Masoud (n.d.). "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.
5. "Detailed biography of Ayatollah Khamenei, Leader of Islamic Revolution". Khamenei.ir. 23 September 2013.
6. "The Office of the Supreme Leader, Sayyid Ali Khamenei". Archived from the original on 2009-06-18. Retrieved 2007-04-28.
7. "Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei".
8. "The Supreme Leader – The Iran Primer". 2 October 2010. Archived from the original on 30 June 2016. Retrieved 1 July 2016.

Other websites

• Personal Website