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. Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waves to the crowd as he arrives for a ceremony marking the anniversary of the 1989 death of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini at his ... 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 ... 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 ...
