Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed yesterday by US-Israeli gunfire. He was Iran's supreme leader since 1989 and the most powerful figure in the country.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei , who was killed yesterday by American-Israeli gunfire , was Iran 's supreme leader since 1989 and the most powerful figure in the country.
As Supreme Leader, he held absolute power over all branches of government, the military, and the judiciary in the Shiite Islamic Republic.
Khamenei, 86, assumed supreme power in 1989, following the death of the Islamic Republic's founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
He was head of state and the armed forces. He also had authority over the national police and the morality police.
Khamenei controlled the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which is responsible for internal security, and its volunteer wing, the Basij Resistance Force – used to suppress dissent in Iran.
Essentially, he had absolute control over Iran's political, military, and religious institutions, shaping domestic policy and guiding international relations.
Israel has long considered him a destabilizing force in the Middle East, citing his support for Iran's network of armed allies, including the Palestinian Hamas and the Lebanese Hezbollah.
For nearly four decades, Khamenei built a regional power to rival Sunni Muslim states across the Gulf, while promoting nuclear technology that has unsettled the surrounding region.
Following his death, Alireza Arafi was appointed today, Sunday (01/03), a legal member of Iran's Supreme Leadership Council , whose mission is to fulfill the role of supreme leader until the Assembly of Experts elects a new leader.
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