Ali Khamenei
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Grand Ayatollah Commander-in-Chief of Iran Sayyed Ali Khamenei |
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| 2nd Supreme Leader of Iran | |
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Assumed office 4 June 1989 |
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| President | |
| Preceded by | Ruhollah Khomeini |
| 3rd President of Iran | |
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In office 13 October 1981 – 3 August 1989 |
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| Prime Minister | Mir-Hossein Mousavi |
| Supreme Leader | Ruhollah Khomeini |
| Preceded by | Mohammad-Ali Rajai |
| Succeeded by | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani |
| Member of the Assembly of Experts | |
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In office 15 August 1983 – 21 February 1991 |
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| Constituency | Tehran Province |
| Member of the Parliament of Iran | |
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In office 28 May 1980 – 13 October 1981 |
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| Constituency | Tehran |
| Majority | 1,405,976 (65.8%, ranked 5th) |
| Tehran's Friday Prayer Imam | |
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Assumed office 14 January 1980 |
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| Appointed by | Ruhollah Khomeini |
| Interim Imams | |
| Preceded by | Hussein-Ali Montazeri |
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Sayyed Ali Hosseini Khameneh 19 April 1939 Mashhad, Khorasan, Iran |
| Political party | Independent |
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| Spouse(s) | Khojaste Bagherzadeh (m. 1964) |
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| Relatives | Hadi Khamenei (brother) |
| Residence | House of Leadership |
| Alma mater | Qom Seminary |
| Religion | Shia Islam (Twelver) |
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| Website | english |
| Military service | |
| Service/branch | Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps |
| Years of service | 1979–1980 |
| Commands | Head of Revolutionary Guards |
Sayyed Ali Hosseini Khamenei (Persian: سید علی حسینی خامنهای pronounced [ʔæˈliː hoseiˈniː xɒːmeneˈʔiː] ; 19 April 1939) is the second and current Supreme Leader of Iran and a Muslim cleric. Ali Khamenei succeeded Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the Iranian Revolution, after Khomeini's death, being elected as the new Supreme Leader by the Assembly of Experts on 4 June 1989, at age 49. Current Iranian president Hassan Rouhani arranged for Khamenei to get his first major post in the provisional revolutionary government as deputy defense minister. Khamenei also served as the President of Iran from 1981 to 1989. In 2012, 2013, and 2014 Forbes selected him 21st, 23rd, and 19th, respectively, in the list of The World's Most Powerful People.
Khamenei is the second longest serving head of state in the Middle East (after Oman’s Sultan Qaboos) as well as the second longest-serving Iranian leader of the last century, after Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. Khamenei is a head of state and also chief commander of the armed forces, and is considered the most powerful political authority in Iran. Khamenei issues decrees and makes the final decisions on economy, environment, foreign policy and everything else in Iran. In August 2016, Khamenei directly warned the current president Hassan Rouhani that there should be no deviation from Khamenei's economic policies. Khamenei controls an organization called Setad that was worth at least $95 billion in 2015. Setad gives Khamenei financial independence from parliament and the national budget.
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