Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has served as the second supreme leader of Iran since 1989. He is a powerful figure in the Middle East ...

Without them, supporters of Ayatollah Ali Khamanei, the 85-year-old supreme leader, might ask, ... Mr Khamenei has signalled readiness to be friends with America.

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.

“Khamenei is at the twilight of his rule, at the age of 86, and already much of the daily command of the regime is not up to him but to various factions who are vying for the future,” said Azizi.

America’s Saturday-night attacks on Iran have amplified an ever more open debate in Tehran over the future of the country and whether Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei should remain in power.

President Trump said Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei must surrender and said the U.S. knows his location. “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!” Trump wrote on social-media. “We know ...

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s oppressive and theocratic Iranian regime, which has fought proxy wars by propping up the likes of Hamas and Hezbollah, should not be allowed to develop a nuclear weap… ...

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said calls for negotiations by “bully states” are aimed at dominating others, not resolving issues, after US President Donald Trump urged him ...