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

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.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday called U.S. demands that Tehran stop enriching uranium entirely "utter nonsense" and questioned whether future nuclear talks could succeed ...

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.

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 ...

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei appeared to reject the framework of the United States’s proposal for a new deal relating to his nation’s nuclear enrichment programs. In a Wednesday speech ...

“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.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said he does not expect negotiations with the United States over Tehran’s nuclear program to “reach a conclusion” as Washington toughens its ...

Khamenei’s Eid sermon paints a picture of a regime feeling besieged from without, wary of its own population within, and vulnerable to precise, possibly decapitating strikes.