L10 · 2022 FILE
Ali Khamenei
Commander-in-chief and Supreme Leader
- THEATRE
- National
- APPOINTED
- June 1989
- LEFT 2022 SEAT
- 28 February 2026
- AFTER 2022
- Killed after 2022
- KILLED
- 28 February 2026
AMNESTY TENURE NOTE
Ali Khamenei was appointed as the Supreme Leader by the Assembly of Experts in June 1989. He remained in this position until 28 February 2026, when he was killed in Tehran by an air strike carried out during the US-Israeli military attack against the Islamic Republic of Iran. His son, Mojtaba Khamenei, was subsequently appointed as the new commander-in-chief and Supreme Leader.
IMMEDIATE SUCCESSOR
Mojtaba Khamenei. Amnesty names only the person who immediately followed the 2022 holder — later successors are omitted, and successors are not themselves on the 87 unless they also held a listed 2022 seat.
LATER POSTS (AS RECORDED)
His son, Mojtaba Khamenei, was subsequently appointed as the new commander-in-chief and Supreme Leader.
DIRECT REPORTS IN THE 87
- Mohammad BagheriHead of the General Staff of the Armed Forces and member of the Supreme National Security Council
- Hossein SalamiGeneral commander of the IRGC and member of the State Security Council
- Hossein AshtariGeneral commander of FARAJA and member of the State Security Council
- Ahmad VahidiMinister of interior
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