Ali Khamenei

Ali Khamenei

Ali Khamenei. (khamenei.ir, CC BY 4.0)

In the archive
Role	Chief of state: Supreme Leader Ali Hoseini-KHAMENEI (since 4 June 1989)
Country	Iran
This archive
Archived items	56
As of	2026-08-21

Ali Khamenei as this archive records it. The Reporting section below lists the archived headlines that name them. Nothing here is written by a model. The Biography is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

Situation as of 2026-08-21

Most recent archived item: Hezbollah doesnt intend to cede Ali al - Taher but open to compromise - reported by naharnet.com:443

Most recent archived item: naharnet.com:443

This page lists 12 archived headlines published between 2026-02-27 and 2026-08-21. It reflects what these feeds reported in that window, not everything that happened.

Biography

Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

Biography

Ali Hosseini Khamenei (19 April 1939 – 28 February 2026) was an Iranian politician and Shia cleric who served as the second supreme leader of Iran from 1989 until his assassination in 2026. A member of the Khamenei family who held the title Grand Ayatollah, he previously served as the third president of Iran from 1981 to 1989. His 36-year tenure as supreme leader made him the longest-serving head of state in West Asia at the time of his death. Born in Mashhad to the Khamenei family, he studied at a hawza there before settling in Qom in 1958, where he attended the classes of Ruhollah Khomeini. Khamenei became involved in opposition to Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and was arrested six times before being exiled for three years by the Pahlavi government. Khamenei was a mainstream figure in the Iranian Revolution, and upon its success, held many posts in the newly established Islamic republic. In the aftermath of the revolution, he was the target of an attempted assassination that paralysed his right arm. Khamenei served as the third president of Iran from 1981 to 1989 during the Iran–Iraq War, when he also developed close ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). [1]

Early Life

Seyyed Ali Hosseini Khamaneh was born on 19 April 1939 to Javad Khamenei, an alim and mujtahid born in Najaf, Iraq, and his second wife Khadijeh Mirdamadi (daughter of Hashem Mirdamadi) in Mashhad. He was the sixth of eight children, the third born to his mother. Two of his brothers are also clerics; his younger brother, Hadi Khamenei, is a newspaper editor and cleric. His elder sister Fatemeh Hosseini Khamenei died in 2015, aged 89. His father was an ethnic Azerbaijani Turk from Khamaneh. His mother was an ethnic Persian from Yazd. Ali Khamenei's ancestor was Sayyid Hossein Tafreshi, a descendant of the Aftasi Sayyids supposedly reaching to Sultan ul-Ulama Ahmad, known as Sultan Sayyid, a grandchild of the fourth Imam of Shia Islam, Ali al-Sajjad. Some of his ancestors are from Tafresh in today's Markazi Province and migrated from their original home in Tafresh to Khamaneh near Tabriz. [2]

Reporting

The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting.

Other archived reporting

• [3] 2026-08-21 - naharnet.com:443: Hezbollah doesnt intend to cede Ali al - Taher but open to compromise
• [4] 2026-08-20 - US State Department: U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah
• [5] 2026-08-15 - outlet not recorded: Can Jared Kushner Get Hamas Disarmament Moving?
• [6] 2026-07-27 - outlet not recorded: The hunt for Khamenei: how CIA and Mossad are trying to trace Mojtaba
• [7] 2026-07-20 - outlet not recorded: Gail H. Murphy, Damascus, Ohio
• [8] 2026-07-18 - vestikavkaza.ru: Mojtaba Khamenei: Donald Trump's signatures cannot be trusted
• [9] 2026-07-17 - outlet not recorded: The Truth About Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya
• [10] 2026-07-10 - outlet not recorded: Iran and U.S. ramp up tit-for-tat strikes as Khamenei laid to rest
• [11] 2026-07-05 - lalibre.be: In Tehran, faithful call for revenge in front of Khamenei's coffin
• [12] 2026-07-01 - outlet not recorded: Israel-Lebanon Deal: A Path to Peace or Another Ceasefire Illusion?
• [13] 2026-06-15 - outlet not recorded: How Family Offices Align Legacy and Philanthropy
• [14] 2026-06-08 - outlet not recorded: Show Us the Money
• ...and 44 more not listed here.

See also: Iran

Publication history

What changed and when. Computed from the sources each revision cited, not written by anyone.

• rev 1, 2026-08-26 — first published from 13 source(s)
• rev 2, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
• rev 3, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
• rev 4, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
• rev 5, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources
• rev 6, 2026-08-26 — rebuilt with no change of sources

Sources

Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

• [1] Wikipedia
• [2] Wikipedia
• [3] naharnet.com:443, 2026-08-21
• [4] US State Department, 2026-08-20
• [7] outlet not recorded, 2026-07-20
• [8] vestikavkaza.ru, 2026-07-18
• [11] lalibre.be, 2026-07-05
• [12] outlet not recorded, 2026-07-01
• [14] outlet not recorded, 2026-06-08

How this page is made

Assembled directly from the war archive and an archived reference work: no model writes any part of it. The Biography is retrieved and archived, the Reporting is the archived headline record. Biography source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).