Biography

Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khamenei — pronounced khah-meh-neh-ee — was born on 19 April 1939 in the holy city of Mashhad, Iran. He was a servant of Allah, a Sayyed from the line of Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him and his family, and a follower of the Ahlulbayt.

His life began in the pursuit of knowledge, in the household of Sayyid Javad Khamenei, a poor and humble scholar who raised his family on a simple life of study and worship. His path of scholarship began with the Holy Qur'an.

Sayyed Ali Khamenei was inspired to stand against oppression from a young age, resisting the egomaniacal Shah and his notorious SAVAK. As a young man he was tortured by the Shah's secret police and sent into exile. He played a pivotal role in shaping the Islamic Revolution of Iran under the leadership of Imam Khomeini.

After the Revolution his peers raised him to the presidency, and he proved his leadership as a wartime president through the imposed war with Iraq. When Imam Khomeini passed away, the Assembly of Experts, the Majlis-e Khobregan, chose him as the Wali al-Faqih to succeed him. Sayyed Ali Khamenei protested the appointment. But perhaps the wise scholars around him saw the light inside him, and chose him as the one to lead.

Under his leadership he became not only the Leader of Iran, but the guardian of faith for millions of Shia Muslims around the world. Iran faced economic warfare, sabotage, and the assassination of its scientists and military commanders. Despite this pressure, Ayatollah Khamenei stood firm and guided his nation to be self-reliant and militarily strong.

He oversaw the support of Muslim resistance from Iraq all the way to Bosnia. He was a champion of unity in the Ummah, and he provided actual support to the Palestinian resistance while Arab and Muslim leaders stood by, witnessing the oppression of Palestine. He described public authority as an amanah: a trust held before God, for which the holder will answer. His life, spent opposing tyranny and defending the powerless, ended at the very moment the world stood confronting one of the gravest crimes of our age: the network Jeffrey Epstein built to abuse children, shielded for years by the intelligence services of the same Zionist entity that then took his life. The party exposed for protecting predators was the party that fired the missile. On February 28, 2026 — 10 Ramadan 1447 AH — Ayatollah Sayed Ali Khamenei achieved the honour of martyrdom.

وَلَا تَحْسَبَنَّ الَّذِينَ قُتِلُوا فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ أَمْوَاتًا ۚ بَلْ أَحْيَاءٌ عِنْدَ رَبِّهِمْ يُرْزَقُونَ

And never think of those who have been killed in the cause of Allah as dead. Rather, they are alive with their Lord, receiving provision.

The Holy Qur'an, 3:169