ENG: Ali Hoseyni Khāmene’i (born 17 July 1939), also known as Ali Khamenei, is an Iranian Azeri politician and cleric. He has been Supreme Leader of Iran since 1989 and before that was president of Iran from 1981 to 1989. He has been described as one of only three poeple having "defining influences" on the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Seyyed Ali Khamene'i was preceded by Ayatollah Khomeini, the leader of Islamic Revolution in Iran. When Khomeini died, Khamenei was elected as the new Supreme Leader by the Assembly of Experts on June 4, 1989. Initially, a council of three members, "Ali Meshkini, Mousavi Ardabili and Khamenei", was proposed for Leadership. After rejection of a Leadership Council by the assembly, and lack of votes for Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Reza Golpaygani, Khamenei ...
Leader of Iran's Islamic Revolution says vandalizing public property is not related to presidential candidates or their supporters. "Some people are against the unity of the Iranian nation and the solidarity of the Islamic system," Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said in a meeting with representatives from the four candidates in Iran's presidential election and officials from the Guardian Council and the Interior Ministry. "Such acts and vandalism and some crimes that were committed are not related to the candidates' supporters but to disturbers of peace and all should stand against them," the ...
spetr - in poll Ayatollah Khamenei Irans geistlicher Führer Ayatollah Ali Khamenei hat eine Überprüfung der Präsidentenwahl angekündigt. In Teheran dürfte es trotz Demonstrationsverbot heute noch zu Kundgebungen kommen.
Der geistliche Führer des Irans, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, hat laut einem Bericht des staatlichen Fernsehens eine Überprüfung der Präsidentenwahl angeordnet. Der Vorwurf des Wahlbetrugs solle untersucht werden, hieß es am Montag. Khamenei forderte den unterlegenen Kandidaten Mir-Hossein Moussavi auf, das Wahlergebnis friedlich und mit juristischen Mitteln ...
cici - in poll Ayatollah Khamenei Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused Washington of training ‘terrorists’ in the Kurdish region of neighbouring Iraq.‘Behind our western border, the US is training terrorists. It is spending money and handing out weapons to be used against the Islamic republic’ of Iran,’ he said in a televised speech in the western Iranian province of Kordestan.‘The Americans have dangerous plans for (Iraqi) Kurdistan ... Their plans are not aimed at defending the Kurdish people, but they want to control them,’ he said in the city of ...
spetr - in poll Ayatollah Khamenei
