The Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, was reportedly killed within the raids carried out by Israel and the United States on Tehran and which, as confirmed by Channel 12 and the New York Times, razed his residence to the bottom. ‘The Times of Israel’ stories that the physique was recovered shortly after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netnayahu mentioned there have been “many signs” that “Khamenei is dead.”
Given his age and subsequent well being issues, information had circulated a number of occasions prior to now – which turned out to be faux – that Khamenei was hospitalized, generally on the verge of demise or that fueled hypothesis about his successor. According to CIA estimates, his place might be taken by a radical determine linked to the Pasdaran.
Khomeini’s pupil
Born on 19 April 1939 in Mashad, a holy metropolis for Shiites, Khamenei started his research in a ‘maktab’, the then elementary faculty. Hojatoleslam’s second son Javad Khamenei later attended the Mashad seminary, the place he attended lectures by Grand Ayatollah Milani. The younger Khamenei left Iran at 18 to hold out a pilgrimage to Najaf, an Iraqi metropolis that performed an vital position within the lifetime of the Supreme Leader. The following yr he moved to Qom, the ‘Vatican’ of the Shiites, the place till 1964 he adopted the teachings of a few of the most well-known ayatollahs of the time, together with Ayatollah Borujerdi and Ruhollah Khomeini, the founding father of the Islamic Republic. “As far as political and revolutionary ideas and Islamic jurisprudence are concerned, I am certainly a disciple of Imam Khomeini,” acknowledged Khamenei, who additionally within the early Sixties joined the ranks of revolutionaries who opposed the Shah’s regime and his pro-American insurance policies. His ‘marriage’ to the Khomeinist trigger value him an evening in jail in May 1963, when the chief of the revolution entrusted him with the mission of carrying a secret message to Ayatollah Milani. A month later he was arrested once more and thrown in jail for anti-government actions.
The hostage disaster
In these years Khamenei remained in shut contact with Khomeini, on the time in exile first in Iraq after which in France, of whom he turned a trusted advisor. Immediately after the latter’s return to Tehran in 1979 he was appointed member of the Council of the Revolution. After its dissolution he turned deputy protection minister and Khomeini’s private consultant on the Supreme Defense Council. For a short while he commanded the Guardians of the Revolution. A hawk in international coverage, he was one of many key negotiators of the so-called hostage disaster. Among the founding members of the Islamic Republican Party (PIR), in 1981, whereas he was giving a speech in a mosque in Tehran, a bomb exploded, inflicting him to lose using his proper arm. The assault was later claimed by the People’s Mojahedin. In that yr he was elected deputy after which president, a place he held for 2 consecutive phrases till 1989, when upon Khomeini’s demise Rahbar was elected by the Assembly of Experts, benefiting from the rift between the founding father of the Islamic Republic and the one who gave the impression to be the pure candidate for his succession, Ayatollah Montazeri. In actuality Khamenei didn’t have the {qualifications} to acquire the place. The Supreme Guide, in actual fact, needed to be acknowledged as ‘marja-e taqlid’, that’s, a supply of imitation. But confronted with the void that had been created with Khomeini’s demise, the Constitution was amended to nominate a brand new Rahbar. In one evening he was additionally ‘promoted’ from hojatoleslam to ayatollah.
Opposed to détente
Under his management, Iran confronted occasions of nice issue. The first impediment for the Supreme Leader was the twin mandate of President Mohammad Khatami, a reformist who pushed for détente with the West, a line that Khamenei noticed as smoke and mirrors. The Rahbar basically succeeded in derailing the Khatami presidency by blocking lots of his reforms which aimed to open up the nation from each a social and political viewpoint. However, it was along with his successor, the ultra-conservative Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, thought-about by many to be his protégé, that the Islamic Republic was on the snapping point. The disputed re-election of the previous mayor of Tehran in 2009, in actual fact, introduced the nation to the brink of chaos, with hundreds of protesters killed within the repression of the Green Wave. Faced with probably the most critical avenue demonstrations for the reason that revolution, Khamenei used an iron fist.
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