President of Iran
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The president of the Islamic Republic of Iran is the head of government and the second-highest ranking official of Iran, after the supreme leader. While the president is also Iran's head of state, the
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President Ali Khamenei visiting a battlefield during the Iran–Iraq War, August 1988
Presidential Administration of Iran, office of the President in Pastor Street, Tehran
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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
President of Iran
…month because he and his prime minister were assassinated in a bombing. A Provisional Presidential Council filled the office until 13 October 1981, when Ali Khamenei was elected president. Khamenei served as president until 1989, when he succeeded Khomeini as the supreme leader of Iran. In 1989, Akbar Hashemi…
Khamenei in 2017
Khamenei as a teenager
Khamenei in 1962
Khamenei in a protest in 1970 in Mashhad