Ayatollah in a sentence

For instance, the current Ayatollah is a disciple of former President Mohammad Khatami’s father Ayatollah Khatami.

A close confidant of the Islamic Republic’s founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Mousavi was prime minister from 1981 to 1989.

Ayatollah Abbas Ali Soleimani, the former representative of the Supreme Leader in Sistan and Baluchestan province and a member of the Assembly of Experts, was assassinated in an attack in the city of in Babolsar in Iran’s Mazandaran province on Wednesday.

Ayatollah Khamenei also urged the nation for keeping faith and hope in order to preserve national independence and national interests.

Ayatollah Khamenei, meanwhile, stressed that focusing on the economic field should not come at the expense of forgetting about the cultural field.

Ayatollah Khamenei received a group of Iranian Judiciary officials on Tuesday on the occasion of the anniversary of the 7th of Tir (June 28th) terrorist attack, as well as Judiciary Week in Iran.

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, leader of the Islamic revolution, died 11 days after surgery to stop internal bleeding.

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns from exile and becomes supreme religious guide.

In a message on Saturday, Ayatollah Khamenei described the incident of desecration of the Holy Qur'an in Sweden as a bitter, conspiratorial, and dangerous act.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has condemned the gas attacks as “unforgivable” amid a public outcry and the removal of some girls from their classrooms by their worried parents.

Iran’s leaders have hailed the Hamas attack on Israel but denied involvement, with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei praising on Tuesday what he called Israel’s “irreparable” military and intelligence defeat.

Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, a hard-line force answerable only to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, oversees the country's ballistic missile arsenal.

July 19, 2022: The Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei receiving Russian President Vladimir Putin in Tehran, Iran.

On February 1, 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the late founder of the Islamic Republic returned to Iran after 15 years in exile, which marks the start of the Fajr Decade (Ten-Day Dawn) before the Islamic Revolution victory ten days later.

On February 14, 1989, the then Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for the death of Salman Rushdie following the publication of Satanic Verses.

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final say over such policies, rejected the idea when asked about it during a meeting with university students.

The Ayatollah issued a decree calling for Rushdie's death, forcing the author into hiding for many years - although he had been living and traveling freely for decades before the stabbing.

The decree by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei comes as authorities have yet to say how many people they detained in the demonstrations.

The Iranian regime is in a tizzy over a series of cartoons published by Charlie Hebdo, as part of a competition to create images that would offend Ayatollah Khamenei.

Today, Shamkhani is the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, the country’s top security body which Ayatollah Ali Khamenei oversees.