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Ali Khamenei
علي خامنئي ar سید علی خامنهای fa
Supreme Leader of Iran from 1989 to 2026
- Child of Javad Khamenei and Khadija Mirdamadi
- Married to Mansoureh Khojaste Bagherzadeh
- Dated 19 April 1939 CE – 28 February 2026 CE
Overview
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Roles and affiliation
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
Belonged to
Offices held 10
- 24 November 1979 CE – 24 February 1980 CE Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
- 1979 CE – 1980 CE Deputy Minister of Defence and Armed Forces Logistics of Iran
- 14 January 1980 CE – 28 February 2026 CE Tehran's Friday Prayer Imam Number 3 in the sequence Succeeded Hussein-Ali Montazeri
- 28 May 1980 CE – 13 October 1981 CE Member of the Islamic Consultative Assembly
- 9 October 1981 CE – 16 August 1989 CE President of Iran Number 3 in the sequence Succeeded by Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
- 15 August 1983 CE – 4 June 1989 CE Member of the Assembly of Experts
- 7 February 1988 CE – 4 June 1989 CE Chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council Number 1 in the sequence Succeeded by Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
- 4 June 1989 CE – 28 February 2026 CE Commander-in-Chief of the Iranian Armed Forces Number 3 in the sequence Succeeded Ruhollah Khomeini · Succeeded by Mojtaba Khamenei
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4 June 1989 CE – 28 February 2026 CE Supreme Leader of Iran Number 2 in the sequence Succeeded Ruhollah Khomeini · Succeeded by Mojtaba Khamenei Has references - Dates unrecorded commanding officer
Family tree
The family as a list · 13
Family 13
- child of (father) Javad Khamenei father of Iran's supreme leader
- child of (mother) Khadija Mirdamadi Ali Khamenei's mother
- of the house Khamenei family family mainly in Iran
- parent of (child) Boshra Khamenei
- parent of (child) Hoda Khamenei
- parent of (child) Masoud Khamenei Iranian cleric
- parent of (child) Meysam Khamenei
- parent of (father) Mojtaba Khamenei 3rd Supreme Dictator of Iran since 2026
- parent of (father) Mostafa Khamenei Iranian cleric
- sibling of Badri Khamenei sister of Iranian Supreme leader Ali Khamenei
- sibling of Hadi Khamenei Iranian politician
- sibling of Mohammad Khamenei Iranian cleric
- married to Mansoureh Khojaste Bagherzadeh wife of Ali Khamenei
Teachers and students
Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.
Studied under 12
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Ruhollah Khomeini Supreme Leader of Iran from 1979 to 1989 -
Hussein-Ali Montazeri cleric and Deputy Supreme Leader of Iran from 1985 to 1989 -
Muhammad Husayn Tabatabaei Iranian Shia cleric, philosopher, jurist and mystic -
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Abu al-Qasim Khoei Iranian Islamic scholar -
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Hossein Borujerdi Iranian Grand Ayatollah (1875-1961)
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- Javad Khamenei ↗ father of Iran's supreme leader
- Muhsin al-Hakim ↗ Iraqi theologian and religious authority (1889–1970)
- Mohammad Hadi Milani ↗ Iraqi Grand Ayatollah (1895–1975)
- Morteza Haeri Yazdi ↗ Iranian Ayatollah (1916–1986)
- Sayyid Mahmud Husayni Shahrudi ↗ Muslim Shiite scholar
- Hashem al-Qazwini ↗
- Mohammad Mohaghegh Damad ↗ Iranian ayatollah
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Connections
Recorded events and days 2
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