Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei (born 8 September 1969) is an Iranian Shia cleric who became the third supreme leader of Iran in March 2026. A member of the Khamenei family, he is the second child of the previous supreme leader, Ali Khamenei.
Born in Mashhad, a city in northeastern Iran, he was nine when his father emerged as a leading figure in the Iranian Revolution. He received early education in Sardasht and Mahabad, and graduated high school from Tehran, after which he studied Islamic theology under the guidance of his father and Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi. He joined the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in 1987 and served in the Iran–Iraq War. In 1999, he continued his studies in Qom to become a cleric, and joined the Qom Seminary as a theological teacher afterwards. He took control of the Basij paramilitary volunteer militia in 2009.
Following the assassination of his father during the 2026 Iran War, which also killed one of his children, one of his sisters, and his wife, Mojtaba was elected as the third supreme leader by Iran's Assembly of Experts, however his prolonged absence from public view after the appointment raised confusion over his fate. He has previously been sanctioned by the United States Department of the Treasury in 2019 as part of their policy of sanctioning individuals linked to Ali Khamenei.
In political ideology and jurisprudence, he is considered to be among the most hardline of the Iranian principlists, and has close ties to some of the "most ideologically extremist clerics" per a report from Atlantic Council, a pro-NATO think tank. Analysts have generally seen him as more favorable to developing an Iranian nuclear weapons program than his father, opposing his fatwa against nuclear weapons.
Lees meer...8 september 1969 was een maandag onder het sterrenbeeld ♍. Het was de 250e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was Richard M. Nixon.
Als je op deze dag bent geboren, ben je 56 jaar oud. Je laatste verjaardag was op maandag 8 september 2025, 267 dagen geleden. Je volgende verjaardag is op dinsdag 8 september 2026, in 97 dagen. Je hebt 20.721 dagen geleefd, of ongeveer 497.306 uur, of ongeveer 29.838.410 minuten, of ongeveer 1.790.304.600 seconden.
Date: 09 September 1969
Govt expels F Wheeler, Associated Press correspondent in Havana since Apr '67; cites objection to Wheeler's reptg in gen and to rept that Govt had accused member of Mex Embassy staff of having spied for CIA
Date: 09 September 1969
By VARTANIG G. VARTAN
Vartanig VARTAN
Date: 08 September 1969
M Field 5th elected publisher
Date: 09 September 1969
By TOM WICKER
Tom WICKER
T Wicker holds Negro community can expect major unions to dig in bitterly against any faster absorption of Negroes into their ranks
Date: 09 September 1969
By TAD SZULC
Tad SZULC
Communist party dissolves leadership of Czech Journalists Union; special party com names 30-member body to oversee union activities; details
Date: 09 September 1969
R J Danzig named publisher
Date: 09 September 1969
Special to The New York TIme _
Wilson, Jack (columnist)
Date: 09 September 1969
Pres Nixon announces astronauts will begin world tour in Mex City