Grand ?yatoll?h Seyyed ‘Al?
Hossayn? Kh?mene’? (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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