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. Ali Khamenei (b. 1939) has stood at the heart of the Islamic Republic since the 1979 Iranian Revolution, playing a pivotal role in both the militarization of the state and the consolidation of near-absolute authority in the Office of the Supreme Leader. Teenage Khamenei Ali Khamenei was born on 19 April 1939 [11][12][5] to Javad Khamenei , an Alim and Mujtahid born in Najaf, Iraq, [8] and Khadijeh Mirdamadi (daughter of Hashem Mirdamadi) in Mashhad. Khamenei is the second of eight children. [13][14][15] Two of his brothers are also clerics; his younger brother, Hadi Khamenei , is a newspaper editor and cleric. [16] His elder sister Fatemeh Hosseini Khamenei died in 2015, aged 89. [17] His father was an ethnic Azerbaijani from Khamaneh, while ... 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 ...