Khamenei in a sentence

A hard-liner who formerly led the country’s judiciary, Raisi was viewed as a protégé of Khamenei and some analysts had suggested he could replace the 85-year-old leader after Khamenei’s death or resignation.

The office of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued pictures of Sadr flanked by Khamenei on one side, and the commander of the elite Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Major General Qasem Soleimani, on the other.

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.

In 2019, Mousavi compared Khamenei to the former Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, whose rule saw troops gun down demonstrators in an event that led to the Islamic Revolution.

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.

Iran chose its senior national security official Ali Shamkhani to lead the negotiations because he is an ethnic Arab, said a regional source who belongs to Khamenei's inner circle.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei this week rejected accusations that Tehran was involved in the unprecedented attack on Israel amid reports in some Western media that Iranian officials had a hand in the plot.

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.

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 cohesion of the regime is Khamenei himself.

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

The fact that Khamenei and the Revolutionary Guards see the solution to the challenge of Baluchistan and Abdul Hamid purely in terms of more effective suppression methods bodes ill for the future.

The following month, Khamenei and Raisi met again in public with 'resistance' forces in Tehran, where the Iranians congratulated Islamic Jihad leaders for an attack on Israel and urged more cooperation with Hamas.

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.