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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who led the Islamic Republic since 1989, is dead at 86

01/03/2026

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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks with portrait of Ruhollah Khomeini behind him.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who assembled theocratic power in Iran over the decades as its supreme leader…