Riwayat imam ali khamenei biography
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He tried to gather influential personalities of the Muslim world in different ways. The following the authorities ordered him not to speak at the pulpit again. On the Four Principal Books of Traditions Concerning the Biography of Narrators.
5. This prompted him to return to Mashhad and while being at the service of his father, seek further knowledge from him, from Ayatollah Milani and other important scholars residing in Mashhad.
Later, he was transferred to a newly established Islamic school to continue his learning.
After this primary schooling, Sayyed Ali pursued his studies at the theological seminary in Mashhad.
Imam Khomeini sent a message to Sayyid Ali Khamenei, condemning the attack and praising him. He attended Ayatollah Milani's sessions again until 1970.
Ayatollah Khamenei was appointed as a member of this Council together with other important Islamic notables such Shahid Ayatollahs Motahhari and Beheshti. In January 2020, following the assassination of Major General Qasem Soleimani, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) targeted the Ain al-Asad Air Base in Iraq with ballistic missiles.[69] In addition, in June 2025, after U.S.
airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, the IRGC launched a retaliatory missile attack on the Al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar.[70] This strike was conducted as part of Operation Basharat al-Fath, reportedly under the command of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
| Ayatollah Khamenei in Basiji (militia) outfit |
All this frightened the Shah's SAVAK agents and so, in the winter of 1975, they broke into his home in Mashhad and arrested him for the 6th time and confiscated all his books and notes.
Now he was detained in Tehran's notorious "Police-SAVAK Joint Prison" for many months. Accordingly the regime's sensitivity and severity of action against me increased.
He attended their lessons and was willing to stay there and continue his studies in order to profit from these excellent teachers. On October 9, 1981, Imam Khomeini approved his presidential decree, and on October 13, he pledged the oath in the parliament as the third president of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
In this period, Iranian support of Islamic combatants of Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq, and Afghanistan was expanded.
He was president for another four years. Sayyid Ali Khamenei, Abu l-Qasim Khaz'ali, and Muhammad 'Aba'i Khurasani were among those clerics.[25]
In February 1964, Sayyid 'Ali Khamenei went to Zahedan to preach and explain the theories behind the Islamic Movement.[26] His speeches in the mosques of Zahedan led to his arrest and transfer to the prison of Qizil Qal'a.[27] He was released from prison on March 4, 1964.[28] And later, he returned to Qom from Mashhad in the Fall of 1964.[29]
He was with ten other people, including 'Abd al-Rahim Rabbani Shirazi, Muhammad Husayni Bihishti, 'Ali Fayd Mishkini, Ahmad Adhari Qumi, 'Ali Quddusi, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Sayyid Muhammad Khamenei and Muhammad Taqi Misbah Yazdi to make a group of 11 formed to fight the Pahlavi regime by strengthening and reforming the Hawza of Qom.[30]
He was also the imam of congregational prayer at Amir al-Mu'minin Mosque in Tehran.
Based on such an idea, he founded the International Assembly for the Proximity among the Islamic schools of thought. The election was held on October 2, 1981, and Sayyid 'Ali Khamenei was elected president with an absolute majority of votes (95.11%).
After the Islamic Revolution of Iran
Membership in The Council of the Islamic Revolution
After Imam Khomeini immigrated to France, he ordered the formation of The Council of the Islamic Revolution in late October 1978.
He was released in autumn 1975, went back to Mashhad, but he was not allowed to hold his public classes. He likewise served in the Central Council of the Party, and as deputy of the Ministry of Defense and representative of the Council in the Ministry, Commander of Islamic Revolution's Guards Corps.
First Term
After the martyrdom of Muhammad 'Ali Raja'i, the second president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the central council of Islamic Republic Party and also the Society of the Teachers of the Seminary of Qom chose Sayyid Ali Khamenei as the candidate of the presidency.
Membership of the Parliament
Sayyid Ali Khamenei entered the first round of the parliament in March 1980, elected by the votes of Tehran, with the support of the Jami'a-yi Ruhaniyyat-i Mubariz, the Islamic Republic Party, and some other Islamic organizations and groups.