Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who led the Islamic Republic since 1989, is dead at 86
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FILE - In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks under a portrait of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, in a ceremony meeting a group of officials, in Tehran, Iran, March 8, 2025. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP, File)FILE - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, center, leaves an event titled "International Conference in Support of Palestinian Intifada," in Tehran, Iran, Feb. 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)FILE- In this picture released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei listens to the then commander of the Revolutionary Guard Mohammad Ali Jafari during a graduation ceremony of a group of the guard's officers in Tehran, Iran, May 20, 2015. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP, File)FILE Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waves as he attends the 18th anniversary of the death of Iran's late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic revolution in Tehran, June 4, 2007. (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian, File)FILE - In this photo released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei listens to a speaker during a meeting with a group of university students in Tehran, Iran, May 28, 2018. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP, File)
FILE - In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks under a portrait of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, in a ceremony meeting a group of officials, in Tehran, Iran, March 8, 2025. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP, File)