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On 14 September 2007, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (on the 1st Friday prayer of Ramadan) predicted that George W. Bush and American officials would one day be tried in an international criminal court to be held "accountable" for the U.S. led invasion of Iraq. [199] He asserts that the United States is the main cause of insecurity in Iraq.
Ayatollah Hussein-Ali Montazeri (10 November 1985 – 13 March 1989) [57] [58] During the presidency of Hassan Rouhani and amid longstanding rumors of Khamenei's declining health, it was recommended to Khamenei to reestablish the office of deputy supreme leader to better facilitate the transition towards new leadership. [59]
t. e. Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini[b] (17 May 1900 or 24 September 1902 [a] – 3 June 1989) was an Iranian Islamic revolutionary, politician, and religious leader who served as the first Supreme Leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989. He was the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the main leader of the Iranian Revolution, which ...
Read CNN’s Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei Fast Facts for a look at the life of the Iranian Supreme Leader.
When intelligence officials briefed Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in May ahead of a snap presidential election, their report was grim: angered by economic hardship and crackdowns on ...
For the surname, see Rafsanjani (surname). Ali Akbar Hashimi Bahramani Rafsanjani[ a ] (25 August 1934 – 8 January 2017) was an Iranian politician and writer who served as the fourth president of Iran from 1989 to 1997. One of the founding fathers of the Islamic Republic, Rafsanjani was the head of the Assembly of Experts from 2007 until 2011 ...
The country’s 85-year-old supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, “is now in a dilemma of his own making,” analyst Karim Sadjadpour, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for ...
Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran, is the most powerful member of the Khamenei family. The Khamenei family (Persian: خاندان خامنهای) or Khamenei dynasty[1] is among the Iranian Azeri Sayyid families [2][3][4] who claim to be descendants of the fourth Imam of Shia Islam, Ali ibn Husayn Zayn al-Abidin (Persian/ Arabic ...