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Ali Khamenei
Ali Hosseini Khamenei (19 April 1939 – 28 February 2026) was an Iranian cleric and politician who served as the supreme leader of Iran since 1989, the second person to hold the position. He had previously served as the president of Iran from 1981 to 1989. His tenure as supreme leader, spanning 36 years, made him the longest-serving head of state in the Middle East and the longest-serving Iranian leader since Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
Titles
Dispatches
1987
PBS News Hour
1975
How Khamenei Was Killed – The Attack in Iran
2026
Russia, China, Iran: The Axis of Revenge
2024
A Dying King: The Shah of Iran
2017
House of Saud: A Family at War
2018
Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail
2019
Bazm-e Razm
2017
Inside the Iranian Uprising
2023
Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia
2018
The Green Wave
2012