Ali Khamenei: Second Supreme Leader of Iran

Ali Khamenei

Ali Khamenei is an Iranian politician and cleric who became the second Supreme Leader of Iran in 1989. Born in Mashhad, Iran on April 19, 1939, he was an active anti-Shah campaigner and served as Iran's third President during the Iran-Iraq War, supporting national defense and military structures. Succeeding Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989, Khamenei expanded the power of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), maintained a steadfast anti-American foreign policy, and directed Iran's nuclear development program, establishing firm regional influence and governing the Islamic Republic through decades of domestic turmoil and international sanctions.

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Year	Ali Khamenei
1939	Birth of Ali Khamenei (Period: April 19, 1939 (Some sources list July, and disputed theories exist regarding the date), Location: Mashhad, Iran (present-day Mashhad, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran))
1950	Religious education and meeting Khomeini (Ali Khamenei, Age: 10 years old, Period: 1950s–present, Location: Mashhad, Qom, Iran)
1960	Participation in anti-Shah movement and arrest (Age: 20 years old, Period: 1960s–1970s, Location: Various regions of Iran)
1964	Marriage (Ali Khamenei, Mansoureh Khojasteh Bagherzadeh, Age: 24 years old, Period: 1964, Location: Tehran, Iran (exact venue unknown))
1978	Iranian Revolution (Age: 38 years old, Period: 1978–1979, Location: Various regions of Iran)
1979	Activities in the Revolutionary Council and Parliament (Age: 39 years old, Period: 1979–1981, Location: Tehran, Iran)
1981	Assassination attempt on Khamenei (Age: 42 years old, Period: June 27, 1981, Location: Aboozar Mosque, Tehran, Iran) Inauguration as President of Iran (Ali Khamenei, Age: 42 years old, Period: October 13, 1981, Location: Tehran, Iran)
1989	Expansion of power of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (Age: 49 years old, Period: 1989–2026, Location: Iran) Inauguration as Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Ali Khamenei, Age: 50 years old, Period: June 4, 1989, Location: Tehran, Iran)
2000	Diplomatic negotiations regarding nuclear development (Age: 60 years old, Period: 2000s–2010s, Location: Iran, venue of international negotiations)
2009	Protests following the 2009 Iranian presidential election (Green Movement, Age: 70 years old, Period: June 2009–present, Location: Various cities centered on Tehran, Iran)
2011	Syrian civil war (Age: 71 years old, Period: 2011–present (ongoing during Khamenei's tenure), Location: Various parts of Syria)
2022	Death of Mahsa Amini and "Woman, Life, Freedom" protests (Age: 83 years old, Period: September 2022–present, Location: Various regions of Iran)
2024	Direct conflict between Iran and Israel (Age: 84 years old, Period: April 2024, October 2024, Location: Iran, Israel, surrounding areas)
2025	Twelve-Day War (2025 Iran–Israel War, Age: 86 years old, Period: June 13–24, 2025, Location: Iran, Israel)
2026	2026 Iran War (Age: 86 years old, Period: February 2026–present (until Khamenei's death), Location: Iran, Israel, surrounding areas) Death of Ali Khamenei (Age: 86 years old, Period: February 28, 2026, Location: Tehran, Iran) Death of Khamenei (Age: 86 years old, Period: February 28, 2026, Location: Tehran, Iran) Death of Khamenei and selection of a successor (Age: 86 years old, Period: February 28 – March 2026, Location: Tehran, Iran)

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Group	List
Establishment of Israel	Golda Meir David Ben-Gurion Chaim Weizmann Moshe Dayan Yitzhak Rabin Menachem Begin Shimon Peres Levi Eshkol Ariel Sharon Farouk I Gamal Abdel Nasser Anwar Sadat
Iranian Revolution	Ruhollah Khomeini Ali Khamenei Abolhassan Banisadr Mehdi Bazargan Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Mohammad Beheshti Ali Shariati Sayyid Qutb Hassan al-Banna Mustafa Barzani

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