Ali Hosseini Khamenei was an Iranian politician and Shia cleric who served as the second supreme leader of Iran from 1989 until his assassination in 2026. A member of the Khamenei family who held the
Khamenei in 2017
Khamenei in a protest in 1970 in Mashhad
Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei is an Iranian Shia cleric and politician who has served as the third supreme leader of Iran since 2026. A member of the Khamenei family and the second son of second supreme l
Ali Khamenei
…escalated into the Twelve-Day War and an ongoing conflict, during the latter of which Khamenei was assassinated. The Assembly of Experts elected his son Mojtaba as successor on 8 March. Khamenei's state funeral took place from 3 July to 9 July and drew millions from across Iran. His decades in power were marked…
Portrait of Mojtaba Khamenei, unknown date
Khamenei (second from left) in 2024 with his three brothers, from left to right: Mostafa, Masoud, and Meysam
Khamenei (right) with Qasem Soleimani at a 2017 ceremony commemorating the father of Soleimani, in Mosalla, Tehran
Mojtaba Khamenei (right) in front of former president Ebrahim Raisi (center-left)