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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: Who is Iran's supreme leader and how powerful is he?

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has the final say on all major policies, serves as commander-in-chief of the armed forces and controls the Revolutionary Guard.

Mr Khamenei was born into a clerical family in 1939 in Iran's second-largest city Mashhad.

He received a religious education there before turning his attention to political activities against the Shah - the country's royal ruler until the 1979 Iranian Revolution.

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Mr Khamenei eventually went into exile in the 1960s, only re-emerging after the Shah was overthrown.

He was a close confidante of the leader who emerged after the revolution - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini - and Mr Khamenei quickly rose through the ranks of government.

After other key political figures were assassinated - with Mr Khamenei himself targeted in a separate attempt, leaving him paralysed in his right arm - he became president of Iran in an uncontested election.

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On the 19th of April 1939, the future Leader of Islamic Iran was born in the holy city of Mashhad, in the province of Khorasan. Sayyed Ali was the second son of Sayyed Javad Khamenei, a humble and poor Islamic scholar who taught all members of his family how to lead a simple, humble way of life. 


"My father, though a well-known religious figure, was a bit of an ascetic. We had a hard life. Sometimes for supper we had nothing but bread with some raisins, which our mother had somehow improvised.... our house, some sixty-five square meters, consisted of a single room and a gloomy basement. When visitors came to see my father as the local cleric to consult about their problems, the family had to move into the basement while the visit went on.... Years later some charitable persons bought the small, empty lot adjacent to our house, so we were able to build two more rooms."

Detailed biography of Ayatollah Khamenei, the Leader of Islamic Revolution

EDUCATION

At the age of four Sayyed Ali and his older brother Mohammad, were sent to maktab, the traditional primary-schools of

Supreme Leader of Iran

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The supreme leader of Iran,[note 1] also referred to as the supreme leader of the Islamic Revolution,[2][note 2] but officially called the supreme leadership authority,[note 3] is the head of state and the highest political and religious authority of Iran (above the president). The armed forces, judiciary, state radio and television, and other key government organizations such as the Guardian Council and Expediency Discernment Council are subject to the Supreme Leader.[3][4] According to the constitution, the Supreme Leader delineates the general policies of the Islamic Republic (article 110), supervising the legislature, the judiciary, and the executive branches (article 57).[5] The current lifetime officeholder, Seyyed Ali Hosseini Khameneh known as Ali Khamenei, has issued decrees and made the final decisions on the economy, the environment, foreign policy, education, national planning

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