Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has not been seen publicly or heard from in nearly a week. That absence has surprised and unnerved everyone from political insiders to the general public.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei was seen attending an event at a mosque in Tehran on Saturday, according to pictures and a video published on Iran’s government websites and ...

After US and Israeli strikes, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei faces a critical choice: ... “Look, you’re a man of great faith, a man who’s highly respected in his country,” Trump said.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei spoke for the second time in less than a week in a televised speech on Wednesday, appearing healthy after a report that he had been under observation ...

Israel's strikes hit Khamenei's inner circle "I imagine the supreme leader is currently unable to sleep and worried about whether he'll be alive or not," Holly Dagres, a regional expert and senior ...

President Trump said Friday that Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei needed to be truthful about the fact that he “got beat to hell” by the US and Israel — and warned that America would bomb ...

President Donald Trump said Tuesday the U.S. knows where Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is hiding during the Israel-Iran conflict but doesn’t want him killed “for now.” ...

Any departure from Ali Khamenei’s usual script is worth noting. In his recent Eid al-Fitr prayer sermon, ... If the leader is worried, his followers cannot be far behind.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei congratulated the people of Iran for what he called a "decisive victory" over the US and Israel during the 12-Day War in posts on X/Twitter, and a ...

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's power is challenged after Israel's strike on Iran's nuclear sites, weakening regional allies and compromising his inner circle.

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.