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Supreme Leader of Iran Supreme Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Hossayni Khamenei

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Grand Âyatollâh Seyyed ‘Alî Hossaynî Khâmene’î (Persian pronunciation) (Also known as : Seyyed Ali Khamene'i) born 17 July 1939, is the current Supreme Leader of Iran and was the president of Iran from 1981 to 1989. Born to an ethnic Azeri family in Mashhad, Ali Khamenei began religious studies before completing elementary education. He attended the classes of masters of "Sat'h" (seminary lectures based on reading textbooks) and "Kharej" (seminary lectures not based on reading textbooks) in Mashhad, such as Haj Sheikh Hashem Qazvini, and Ayatollah Milani, and then went to Najaf in 1957. Khamenei was a key figure in the Islamic revolution in Iran and a close confidant of Ayatollah Khomeini. Khamenei was appointed to the powerful post of Tehran's Friday Prayer Leader by Ayatollah Khomeini in the autumn of 1979, after the resignation of Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri from the post. In June 1981, Ayatollah Khamenei narrowly escaped an assassination attempt when a bomb, concealed in a tape recorder at a press conference, exploded beside him. He was permanently injured, but the event helped affirm his reputation as a "living martyr" among his followers.

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