After the 12-day war in June, the issue of who will succeed Iran’s longtime supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has ...

Ali Khamenei was a midlevel cleric who clawed his way up the political hierarchy. ... The religion of the other 90% is Sunnism, the original Arab version of the faith.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says his country has delivered a "slap to America’s face” with its strike on an American base in Qatar and warned against any further U.S ...

After US and Israeli strikes, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei faces a critical choice: ... “By God’s grace, a nation of nearly 90 million stood as one – united in voice and purpose ...

A property empire built on seizures. Khamenei became Iran's supreme leader in 1989. He was 50. He now has the final say on all of Iran's domestic and foreign policy.

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waves to the crowd while attending a ceremony marking the 30th death anniversary of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, shown in the poster at ...

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran last year. He was born in 1939 into a religious family of modest means and rose quickly in the regime that took power after the Iranian Revolution of 1979.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Thursday that his country had delivered a “slap to America’s face” by striking a U.S. air base in ...

Israel's prime minister has declined to rule out assassinating Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. President Trump says he'd be an "easy target," and "our patience is wearing thin." ...