Political repression has been practiced in Iran since the Iranian Revolution of 1979. This repression culminated in Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's rise to power and the establishment of an Islamic repu
Iranians in London in 2018, calling for justice over 1988 executions
Green Movement protest against electoral fraud
Protests in Tehran
Mostafa Pourmohammadi (left) and future President of Iran Ebrahim Raisi (right), who belonged to the "Judges of Death" committee of the 1988 executions, in 2013
Ali Khamenei
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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
Political repression in the Islamic Republic of Iran
…as crimes against humanity, a characterization that was shared by a number of other governments. In 1989, following the death of Ayatollah Khomeini, Ali Khamenei assumed the role of Supreme Leader of Iran. A former president and a close ally of Khomeini, Khamenei continued the policies of the Islamic Republic…
Khamenei in 2017
Khamenei as a teenager
Khamenei in 1962
Khamenei in a protest in 1970 in Mashhad