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	Who's Who in Iran
		Ayatollah Ali Khameini was appointed as Iran's Supreme Leader in June 1989, following the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
		He is the absolute authority in Tehran and is answerable to nobody — in fact, the pro-democracy students demonstrating all over Iran are breaking the law simply by criticizing Khameini.
		Khameini lacks the charisma of his predecessor, however, and received a rude awakening in 1997 when 69 percent of the electorate rejected his nominee for president, parliamentary speaker Ali Akbar Nateq-Nouri, and opted instead for reformist Mohammed Khatami.
	www.time.com /time/daily/special/iran/who.html (624 words)

	Historic Personalities of Iran: Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei
		eyed Ali Khamenei was born in Mashhad, Khorasan province of Iran, in 1939.
		Ayatollah Khomeini appointed him in 1980 to be the leader of the Friday congregational prayers in Tehran.
		In 1989 he received the title of "Ayatollah" from the Theological School of Qom; and on June of same year, by the death of Ayatollah Khomeini's, he was elected Vali-e Faqih (Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic) by the majority of votes of the Assembly of Experts.
	www.iranchamber.com /history/akhamenei/ali_khamenei.php (452 words)

	Ali Khamenei Summary
		Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei (born 1939) followed Ayatollah Rohollah Khomeini as supreme spiritual and political leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
		Born in 1939, Sayyid Ali Khamenei was raised in a family of Islamic scholars in Meshed, a key city in northeast Iran.
		In 1981, after the assassination of Mohammad Ali Rajai, Ayatollah Khamenei was elected President of Iran by a landslide vote in the Iranian presidential election, October 1981 and became the first cleric to serve in the office.
	www.bookrags.com /Ali_Khamenei (2638 words)

	AbdolKarim Soroush :: عبدالکريم سروش
		To start with, nine out of 10 of the grand ayatollahs in Najaf have been Iranian, with the exception of one, who was an Arab, properly speaking.
		Ali Sistani's grandfather -- also a grand ayatollah in his time who predicted his grandson would replicate his role -- opposed it, however.
		One of the unintended consequences of the U.S. overthrow of Saddam and the wider influence of the Shiites in Iraq may well be to enhance the democratic prospects in Iran.
	www.drsoroush.com /English/Interviews/E-INT-20040220-If_Shiite_Majority_Comes_To_Power_In_Iraq_It_Will_Enhance_Demogracy_In_Iran.htm (545 words)

	U.S. Air Force AIM Points: Extremist vying to become top ayatollah
		In a move that would push the country even further into the diplomatic wilderness, Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah-Yazdi, 71, who publicly backs the use of suicide bombers against Israel, is campaigning to succeed Grand Ayatollah Ali Khameini, 67, as the head of the Islamic state.
		Ayatollah Mesbah-Yazdi and his supporters will attempt to tighten the fundamentalists' political stranglehold next month, by standing in elections for the Assembly of Experts, an 86-strong group of theologians that would be responsible for nominating a replacement for Ayatollah Khamenei, whose health is rumored to be failing.
		Although Ayatollah Khameini, who has been in office since 1989, is expected to remain for the time being, the assembly elected next month is almost certain eventually to decide his successor.
	aimpoints.hq.af.mil /display.cfm?id=15163 (587 words)

	Ayatollah Khamenei (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Ayatollah Khamenei was born in 1939 in the city of Mashhad, in Khorasan’s province of Iran.
		After the assassination of President Mohammad Ali Rajai, Ayatollah Khamenei was elected president of the Islamic Republic and became the first cleric to serve in the office in 1981.
		Ayatollah Khomenei always said that the Islamic republic has never sought to develop or acquire nuclear weapons in line with the tenets of Islam.
	www.aljazeera.com /cgi-bin/review/people_full_story.asp?service_id=5839 (663 words)

	War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity
		At a recent sermon in the golden-domed Shrine of Ali in Najaf, a leader of Sciri, Sadr al-Din al-Kubanchi, criticized the Iranian government for not reining in the mercurial Mr.
		Ayatollah Sistani's mentor in Najaf, Grand Ayatollah Abu al-Qassim al-Khoei, promoted the "quietist" school of Shiite Islam, which advocated that religious leaders remove themselves from direct involvement in politics a view that ran counter to that of Ayatollah Khomeini.
		Close associates of Ayatollah Sistani have said he is intent on transforming Najaf into a Shiite power center to rival Qum, which was strengthened in the 1980's by an influx of clerics fleeing Najaf during Mr.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/icons/nyt-7-3-04b.html (1808 words)

	Asia Times
		The militants pledge loyalty to Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khameini, and they're believed to have ties to senior clerics.
		Ali Ansari, director of Durham University's Center for Iranian Studies in England, said, "The major source of trouble are the Islamic vigilantes around the Ansar-i Hizbullah, the 'helpers of the party of God'.
		I think there are so many people in the establishment like [former president Ali Akbar Hashemi] Rafsanjani and others who also understand or recognize the danger in provoking a mass street protest, because if you provoke one you may actually provoke a revolutionary situation," Ansari said.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/EF19Ak01.html (534 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Region \| The black turbans' 'counterrevolution' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Lineage is of fundamental importance to the Shi'ite creed which holds that the nephew of the Prophet Mohamed, Ali, and his descendants had been usurped of their right to inherit the command of the faithful.
		Hussein Khomeini is the son of Mustafa Khomeini, eldest son of Ayatollah Rohallah Khomeini.
		That it was the Ayatollah's grandson that launched this powerful salvo suggests that the legitimacy of the Iranian regime has begun to crumble as political tensions slowly rise.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2003/651/re9.htm (1456 words)

	Arutz 7 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Arafat and Khameini: U.S., Israel Behind Attacks and Beheadings
		Iran's Supreme Leader," Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khameini, in a meeting with visiting Prime Minister of Singapore Goh Chok Tong on Tuesday, spoke about world terrorism, including the beheadings of foreign civilians taking place in Iraq.
		Khameini also said on Tuesday that drug addiction and ethical wrongdoings amongst Iran's youth were the fault of the Americans and Zionists, IRNA reported: "There is no doubt that the hands and brains of the enemies are behind the conspiracy of drug addiction and ethical lawlessness."
	www.israelnationalnews.com /print.php3?what=news&id=65651 (554 words)

	Guardian \| Saddam's fall will reignite the revolutionary debate
		When Ayatollah Khomeini was arrested in the Iranian Shi'ite centre of Qom and packed off by the Shah to Ankara on a cargo aircraft, it was a transfer of a revolutionary personality arguably as important as that of Lenin on the famous sealed train.
		The picture of Iran attempting to create a sphere of influence in southern Iraq, or of the Iranian regime plotting, as some fear, to sabotage the American project, with the Americans responding, perhaps with military threats, is too simple.
		According to his biographer Baqer Moin, "he seems to have chosen his moment with care," offering his lectures just after Grand Ayatollah Mohsen Hakim of Najaf had been humiliated by the Ba'athist regime, so that they were a commentary on the weakness of both Iraqi and Iranian Shi'ism in face of secular encroachment.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4650928-103677,00.html (1035 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Middle East \| Profile: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
		When Ayatollah Khamenei took over, the constitution had to be amended to allow the post to be held by a lower-ranking theologian.
		Ayatollah Montazeri, who is also one of Iran's leading dissidents, questioned the powers of the Supreme Leader.
		Ayatollah Khamenei did however intervene in the case of pro-reform academic Hashem Aghajari.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/3018932.stm (601 words)

	Iran
		Khameini is not fighting a war against America: he is fighting a war for his own survival.
		Ayatollah Mohajerani, the revered minister of culture, was forced to resign by Ayatollah Khameini.
		Khatami's good will is balanced by Ali Khameini's unfledging hatred for the United States, and, unfortunately, no psychologist is likely to change Khameini's mind: Khameini and his Allah have no interest in showing the Iranian people how rich and free the western societies are, therefore they will not.
	www.scaruffi.com /politics/iran.html (5775 words)

	Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Reported Dead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Pajamas Media is reporting that Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead: A source close to Pajamas Media has learned that Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has apparently succumbed to the cancer that hospitalized him last month, as exclusively reported by Pajamas Media, at age 67.
		Pajamas Media (of which I am not a member) is reporting the demise of Ali Khamenei PJM in Santa Monica …….A source close to Pajamas Media has learned that Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has apparently succumbed to the cancer that hospitalized him last month, as exclusively reported by Pajamas Media, at age 67.
		Pajamas Media is reporting that Supreme Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the spiritual leader of Iran (successor to the Ayatollah Khomeini), has died today, citing an exclusive Pajamas Media source.
	tailrank.com /1039103/Supreme-Leader-Ayatollah-Ali-Khamenei-Reported-Dead (1990 words)

	Weekly Worker 583 - Thursday June 30 2005
		Khameini’s Iraqi protégé, prime minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, backed up by the Iranian-trained militia of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, is now prime minister with the blessing of Sayyid Sistani.
		Meanwhile another protégé of Khameini, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is presented as Iran’s elected head of state, with his Bassij militia in close attendance.
		Ayatollah Mehdi Karoubi, defeated in the first round of the elections, is launching his own islamic party and a wounded but super-rich Rafsanjani will wield his considerable financial and political power in other ways, challenging everything Ahmadinejad and his supporters in the Council of Guardians try to do.
	www.cpgb.org.uk /worker/583/iran.htm (1028 words)

	IPI - International Press Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		As the drums of war grow louder in the region, the crucial role of the media is being forgotten.
		One might conceivably trace a link between the escalation of violence and the gradual economic and political liberalisation which the majority of the countries in the region are experiencing.
		Khameini apparently feels cornered by the demands of the general population for more freedoms and he is lashing out wildly in all directions.
	www.freemedia.at /wpfr/Mena/intro_mena.htm (7434 words)

	United Press International: UPI hears ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Saudi Arabia was widely expected to field its own candidate to replace Venezuela's Ali Rodriguez as secretary-general of the Organization of Petrol Exporting Countries.
		And Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khameini, has now publicly ruled out talks with Washington, even after a May 21 colloquium in parliament on the future of relations with America in which officials from both right and left participated.
		Khameini said any such talks were "an insult to the Iranian people." One pro-detente newspaper the Bonyan, has been closed down and reformist commentator Ahmad Zeibabadi, given a two-year jail sentence.
	www.upi.com /view.cfm?StoryID=11062002-100721-4096r (774 words)

	NPQ
		A distinction has been made between the so-called Najaf “school” of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in Iraq, which supports separation of religion and state, and the so-called Qom “school” in Iran that affirms religious guidance—theocracy—over democratically legitimated government.
		Ali al-Sistani’s grandfather—also a grand ayatollah in his time who predicted his grandson would replicate his role—opposed it, however.
		One of the unintended consequences of the United States overthrow of Saddam and the wider influence of the Shiites in Iraq may well be to enhance the democratic prospects in Iran.
	www.digitalnpq.org /archive/2004_spring/soroush.html (594 words)

	Telegraph \| Opinion \| What James Brandon's kidnap reveals about Iraq
		He does not command anything like the popularity of Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the ailing spiritual head of Iraq's Shi'ites, but al-Sadr's uncompromising methods and guile have undoubtedly broadened his appeal and made him a force to be reckoned with for Iraq's new interim government.
		His rise to prominence began soon after the end of last year's military campaign, when he was implicated in the brutal murder of Abdel Majid al-Khoie, the British-sponsored Shi'ite cleric who had assumed control of the holy Islamic shrine in Najaf.
		While there is little hard evidence of direct Iranian involvement in the latest conflict in Najaf, many members of Iraq's interim government believe that it is no coincidence that al-Sadr has re-opened hostilities at a time when the Iranian government is under intense international pressure to reveal the truth about its nuclear research programme.
	www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk /opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2004/08/15/do1501.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2004/08/15/ixopinion.html (955 words)

	issue
		"Ayatollah Ali Khameini, Iran's supreme leader, called the Taliban "a heartless and oppressive tribe" on Sunday.
		That seems to indicate that Khameini wishes to restore a non-Taliban government to Kabul; an all-or-nothing proposition.
		I have looked at the terrain and geography and Iran has a straight shot to the Indus River in Central Pakistan itself, though that would be a large and long drive.
	www.siri-us.com /backissues/1998/SIT_9-16_Alert-Iran.html (1510 words)

	Anna Nicole Smith Marries Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
		Last week it was reported that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had died from cancer, diabetes, heart problems and loss of vision.
		Ayatollah Ali Khamenei wore his traditional fl robe, fl turban and cane.
		The Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said, “You can never be too careful given what happened to Princess Diana and the United States navy and air force steaming towards me in the Persian Gulf.
	ezinearticles.com /?Anna-Nicole-Smith-Marries-Ayatollah-Ali-Khamenei&id=415691 (868 words)

	THE TRIBUNE'S VIEW
		Ayatollahs and mullahs have maintained ancient, repressive policies, only recently softened as civil protests have mounted.
		Ayatollah Ali Khameini suddenly announced he would cease uranium enrichment and open the county to outside inspectors.
		Outsiders quickly respond to the ayatollah’s powerful emissaries, marginalizing any effort by the democrats.
	www.columbiatribune.com /2004/Mar/20040320Comm001.asp (557 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Strange Goings On in Iran Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit [Rumors of an assassination attempt against Ayatollah Ali Khameini, a possible coup attempt, expulsions of plotters to Afghanistan, and news of an outbreak of hemorrhagic fever in Iran...
		The rumours filled the capital at a time that there are more and more talk in every political circle that the ayatollah's regime is reaching its end and is in the process of crumbling, the Soviet Union way.
		The last alarm was given by a senior conservative cleric in Ayatollah Ebrahim Amini, saying the regime was "in the verge of collapse".
	www.blythe.org /nytransfer-subs/Middle_East/Destabilization__Strange_Goings_On_in_Iran (581 words)

	CNN.com - Backgrounder -- Iran struggles to define international policy - November 6, 2001
		But shortly after that announcement was made, the nation's religious leader, Ayatollah Ali Khameini, condemned the idea.
		On one side, Khameini continues to control the courts and the military.
		Khameini is the successor to Ayatollah Khomeini, who made international headlines in 1979 when he effectively took control of Iran.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/fyi/news/11/01/iran (479 words)

	[No title]
		The Ayatollah Khomeini must be turning in his grave.
		None of this has played well with the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khameini, which explains why repression has increased.
		Reacting to the recent protests, the mullahs have arrested thousands and even confiscated the satellite dishes they blame for bringing American propaganda into the country.
	www.marzeporgohar.org /index.php?l=1&cat=20&scat=48&artid=99 (609 words)

	The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Reformists tell ayatollah Iranian election is a sham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The rebuke was particularly significant in a country where people are reluctant to say much about the ayatollah, let alone criticize his performance publicly and send him a letter of complaint.
		Even Khameini asked the Guardian Council to reconsider, and President Khatami asked the ayatollah to postpone the election.
		In the letter to Khameini, addressed as "his excellency," reformists said they were worried that the country was not following the path set by its first supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who led the country's historic Islamic revolution.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2001859821_iran18.html (556 words)

	SalamIran, IranInfo, Leadership, Imam Khamenei Biography
		Sayyed Ali Khamenei was born in Mashad, the holiest city, in the north-eastern province of Khorasan, in 1939.
		Both his parents belonged to clergy's families and spent the year 1964, he achieved the highest degrees in his theological studies at the Theological Academy of Qum but continued his studies at the Theological Academy at Mashad up to the age of twenty-nine.
		In 4th June 1989, One day after demise of Imam Khomeimi, Assembly of Experts closed Ayatollah Khamenei to lead the Islamic Revolution of IRAN.Since 1994, Ayatollah Khamenei has been introduced as the Religious authority in religious authority for Shi`ait people in the world by the Ulama from different countries.
	www.salamiran.org /IranInfo/State/Leadership/Leader/LeaderBiography.html (627 words)

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