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Ali Khamenei

علي خامنئي ar سید علی خامنه‌ای fa

Supreme Leader of Iran from 1989 to 2026

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Tehran's Friday Prayer Imam
President of Iran
Supreme Leader of Iran

Offices on record

Overview

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Life

Roles and affiliation

Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.

What this means

As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.

Belonged to

Offices held 10

  1. 24 November 1979 CE – 24 February 1980 CE Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
  2. 1979 CE – 1980 CE Deputy Minister of Defence and Armed Forces Logistics of Iran
  3. 14 January 1980 CE – 28 February 2026 CE Tehran's Friday Prayer Imam Number 3 in the sequence Succeeded Hussein-Ali Montazeri
  4. 28 May 1980 CE – 13 October 1981 CE Member of the Islamic Consultative Assembly
  5. 9 October 1981 CE – 16 August 1989 CE President of Iran Number 3 in the sequence Succeeded by Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
  6. 15 August 1983 CE – 4 June 1989 CE Member of the Assembly of Experts
  7. 7 February 1988 CE – 4 June 1989 CE Chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council Number 1 in the sequence Succeeded by Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
  8. 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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  1. 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
  2. Dates unrecorded commanding officer

Family

The family of Ali Khamenei

Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.

Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.

As documented
The family as a list · 13

Family 13

What this means

A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.

Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a religious affiliation held by the whole house · continuous rule · a shared religious affiliation

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Transmission

Teachers and students

Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.

What this means

In the direction the records give it. This is not biological ancestry and it is not institutional succession: a student who inherited no office still received the teaching, and an heir who received the office may have been taught by someone else entirely. It does not imply that teacher and student agreed.

Studied under 12

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Ali Khamenei Supreme Leader of Iran from 1989 to 2026

Taught 4

Connections

How Ali Khamenei connects

Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.

Recorded events and days 2

What this means

Events Wikidata records in a subject’s history, and the day a festival is kept. Not a complete history, and the day a festival falls on is not when it began.

Does not imply that these are all the events in its history · that Wikidata ranks the events by importance

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Sources

Sources and evidence

Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.

How this site reads its sources

43 statements on this record

  • 2 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
  • 41 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 5 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.

Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.

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Data
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Text
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Review

Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.

Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.

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