A week after Israel launched a surprise attack on Iran with the aim of wiping away her nuclear program, all eyes are now focused on the withdrawn supreme leader of the country, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Op donderdag, na een Iraanse raketaanval die een Israëlisch ziekenhuis trof, zei de Israëlische minister van Defensie Israel Katz in een verklaring dat “Khamenei verantwoordelijk zal worden gehouden voor zijn misdaden”, toevoegend tijdens een bezoek aan een van de impactsites die “een persoon als dat niet zou moeten bestaan”, noemde hem later de moderne hitler “, volgens de moderne hitler”, de moderne hitler “, volgens de moderne tijd van Israel.
During decades of the rule, Khamei has built an impenetrable circle around him, both inside and outside Iran. Now that Israel eliminates some of his closest assistants and senior security figures, and his militant Islamic allies in the region considerably weaken, the highest leader is starting to look more and more isolated.
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Supreme leader Ali Khamenei is with military leaders. (AP)
On Wednesday, the militancy and determination came to remain in power in Khamenei statements, who said that the “Iranian nation will not surrender” and “War will be confronted with war, bombing with bombing and strike with strike,” said local media reports.
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Khamenei, born in 1939 in a religious but modest family in Mashad, Eastern Iran, was one of the Islamic activists who played an instrumental role in the crucial revolution of 1979 to overthrow the US, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was twice President of Iran and a narrow ally of the first highest leader in the country, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeni. (Getty Images)
A narrow ally of the first highest leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who led the revolution and founded the Islamic Republic, Khamenei appeared as a trusted lieutenant, who helped to promote the concept of religiously dominated administration of the new regime.
A large part of the 1980s, he served as president of Iran, a largely ceremonious role. In addition, when Khomeini died in 1989, Khamei, who, according to some reports, was not yet eligible for the position, the highest leader in the country.
Since then, Khamenei has worked to consolidate his absolute power, to sharpen his grasp on the country’s political, military and security apparatus, while taking on dissidence and taking a strong position against progressive ideas, the West and Israel.
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‘The State Police and the notorious’ morality police’, all under the control of Khamenei, maintain a serious interpretation of Sharia legislation, the violent suppression of deviating opinions and the target of women and minorities. His device has not only silenced by mass arrests, torture and extrajudicial murders, but has also organized organized terrorations about the region over the region. ‘
Daftari concluded: “The regime of Khamenei is responsible for the death of countless Iranians and even Americans, with blood in the hands of both domestic action and international violence. For almost five decades, Iran has been run as a police state, where fear, surveillance and systematic human rights are abused of regime and methods of the survival and methods of the survival and methods of the survival and methods of the survival and methods of the survival and methods of the survival and methods of the survival and methods of the survival and methods of the survival and methods of the survival and methods of the survival and methods of the survival and methods of the survival and methods of survival and methods of the survival and methods of the survival and methods of survival.” “” “
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Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, greets the then Syrian President Bashar Assad in Tehran, Iran, on February 25, 2019. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP, File)
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Khamenei has also invested heavily in the so-called resistance axis in the region, including supporting the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthi movement in Yemen and other militant militias. Many of these allies, as well as the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria, have collapsed under the Israeli military pressure in the last year and a half.
In Iran, the conservative style of Khamenei has confronted challenges over the years in 2009, including shortly after elections where Khamenei declared the victory for the sitting president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who evoked mass popular demonstrations – with some demonstrators calling for Khameni’s subdistries.
Massive protests also broke out in the autumn of 2022 after Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old, died while he was held by the Morality Police because she reportedly had worn her headscarf incorrectly. The protests were brutally put down, with many of the arrested to death by his regime.
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Iraanse opperste leider Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, rechts, ontmoet secretaris-generaal van de islamitische Jihad-beweging Ziyad al-Nakhalah, links, en het voormalige hoofd van de Hamas terreurgroep Ismail Haniyeh, die op een dag werd vermoord, op een dag nadat deze foto werd genomen, Teheran, Iran, op 30 juli, 2024. (Iranian leader press office / handout / anadolu via getty images)
According to the Council for Foreign Relations, however, the supreme leader of Iran remains “leader for life” under an administrative reigning system that places him at the head of the state and offers him enormous control that are derived from religious authority.
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“When he was a young man, he studied the writings of the founders of the Muslim Brotherhood and always believed in militant Islam,” said Javed Danfar, adding that he has also been “always anti-Israel to the point of anti-Semitism.”
Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waves to the crowd while attending a ceremony that marks the 30th death of the death of the deceased revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeh Khomeini, shown in the poster at the rear, at his Mausoleum just outside Tehrole, that his Land, Ayatole, that his Land, Ayatole, that his Land, Ayatole. And to resist political pressure. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)
“I think he believes in confronting Israel in every possible way,” he said, and noted that there are no signs that is interested in khamenei to go back.
“I am sure that many people had warned him that supporting Hamas after October 7, and Hezbollah and other groups could bring war in the territory of Iran, but he clearly did not listen,” said Javedanfar.
