His Excellency The Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei
سید عَلْی حِسْینی خَامِنُهُ ای
Khamenei in 2024
2nd Supreme Leader of Iran
Incumbent
Assumed office 16 August 1989 Acting: 3 June – 16 August 1989
President	Himself Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Mohammad Khatami Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Hassan Rouhani Ebrahim Raisi Mohammad Mokhber (Acting) Masoud Pezeshkian
Preceded by	Ruhollah Khomeini
3rd President of Iran
In office 9 October 1981 – 16 August 1989
Supreme Leader	Ruhollah Khomeini Himself (Acting)
Prime Minister	Mir-Hossein Mousavi
Preceded by	Mohammad-Ali Rajai
Succeeded by	Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
1st Chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council
In office 7 February 1988 – 4 June 1989
Appointed by	Ruhollah Khomeini
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Member of the Assembly of Experts
In office 15 August 1983 – 4 June 1989
Constituency	Tehran Province[1]
Majority	2,800,353 (87.8%)[2]
Member of the Islamic Consultative Assembly
In office 28 May 1980 – 13 October 1981
Constituency	Tehran, Rey and Shemiranat
Majority	1,405,976 (65.8%)[3]
3rd Tehran's Friday Prayer Imam
Incumbent
Assumed office 14 January 1980
Appointed by	Ruhollah Khomeini
Preceded by	Hussein-Ali Montazeri
Personal details
Born	Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khameneh (1939-04-19) 19 April 1939 (age 85) Mashhad, Khorasan, Imperial State of Iran
Political party	Independent (since 1989)
Other political affiliations	Islamic Republican Party (1979–1987) Combatant Clergy Association (1977–1989)
Spouse(s)	Mansoureh Khojasteh Bagherzadeh ​ ​ (m. 1964)​
Children	6, including Mostafa, Mojtaba, and Masoud[4]
Parents	Javad Khamenei (Father) Khadijeh Mirdamadi [fa] (Mother)
Education	Khorasan Seminary Najaf Seminary Qom Seminary
Signature
Website	khamenei.ir
Military service
Allegiance	Iran
Branch/service	Islamic Republic of Iran Army Ground Forces
Years of service	1981–present
Rank	General Commander-in-chief
Commands	Islamic Republic of Iran Army Ground Forces (since 1989)
Battles/wars	Iran–Iraq War Operation Samen-ol-A'emeh

Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khamenei (Persian: سید عَلْی حِسْینی خَامِنُهُ ای, romanized: ʿAlī Ḥusaynī Khāminahāī; born 19 April 1939)^[5][6][7] is an Iranian Shia Islamic scholar and politician who has served as the second supreme leader of Iran since 1989. Khamenei is the longest-serving head of state in the Middle East. He was the president of Iran from 1981 to 1989 until the death of Ruhollah Khomeini.

Khamenei is the longest-serving head of state in the Middle East, as well as the second-longest-serving Iranian leader of the last century, after Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.^[8]

1. ↑ "1982 Assembly of Experts Election", The Iran Social Science Data Portal, Princeton University, archived from the original on 19 October 2015, retrieved 10 August 2015
2. ↑ "چه کسی در نخستین انتخابات خبرگان اول شد؟ +جدول". 7 January 2014. Archived from the original on 10 October 2017.
3. ↑ "Parliament members" (in Persian). Iranian Majlis. Archived from the original on 7 July 2014. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
4. ↑ Kazemzadeh, Masoud (n.d.). "Ayatollah Khamenei's Foreign Policy Orientation". Comparative Strategy. 32 (5): 443–458. doi:10.1080/01495933.2013.840208. eISSN 1521-0448. ISSN 0149-5933. S2CID 153558136.
5. ↑ "Detailed biography of Ayatollah Khamenei, Leader of Islamic Revolution". Khamenei.ir. 23 September 2013.
6. ↑ "The Office of the Supreme Leader, Sayyid Ali Khamenei". Archived from the original on 2009-06-18. Retrieved 2007-04-28.
7. ↑ "Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei".
8. ↑ "The Supreme Leader – The Iran Primer". 2 October 2010. Archived from the original on 30 June 2016. Retrieved 1 July 2016.

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