Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran
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Iran’s leadership crisis has taken a dramatic and deeply controversial turn after Mojtaba Khamenei, the little-known son of the late
At first dismissed as weak and indecisive, Khamenei seemed an unlikely choice for supreme leader after the death of the charismatic Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. The 36-year rule of Ayatollah Ali
Iran stepped up attacks on Donald Trump by sharing a dark cartoon that linked the former US president to a deadly strike on a girls' school in Minab, showing Trump with a Nobel Peace Prize medal standing among bloodied school bags and shattered classroom rubble.
Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamanei may seek legitimacy by "showing defiance, endurance, and revenge," an Iran expert told Newsweek.
Khamenei’s financial agent, Ali Ansari, has circumvented sanctions, laundered money for the IRGC and the regime, and financed the IRGC and its proxy groups.