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

Israel’s defense chief on Thursday declared Iran’s leader “cannot continue to exist,” days after President Trump joined Israeli officials in threatening the ayatollah. Israeli Defense ...

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… ...

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.