Ayatollah ali khamenei: Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei

Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei , the Supreme Leader of Iran, on June 18, rejected US President Donald Trump’s demand for unconditional surrender, and said that Israel had made a huge mistake in attacking Iran. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran last year. He was born in 1939 into a religious family of modest means and rose quickly in the regime that took power after the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Arash ... Biography of Ayatollah Khamenei | Introduction Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khamenei is the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, one of the highest-ranking figures in the Shia Muslim world, and a central political authority in Iran since the 1980s. Revered as a religious scholar and political leader, Ayatollah Khamenei succeeded Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989 and has since played a pivotal role in shaping Iran’s domestic and foreign policies. With the nation watching, the host on Iranian state television asked the question that so many people in Iran — from the political elite to people on the street — were wondering. “People are very worried about the supreme leader,” the host said to an official from Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ’s ...