Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khamenei, born in 1939 in Mashhad, served as the Supreme Leader of Iran from 1989 until his reported assassination in March 2026. Emerging as a prominent cleric and close associate of Ruhollah Khomeini during the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Khamenei survived an assassination attempt in 1981 that left his right arm partially...
