Khamenei

American  

[khah-muh-ney, kah‑, khah-me-ney] / ˌxɑ məˈneɪ, ˌkɑ‑, ˌxɑ mɛˈneɪ /

noun

1. Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Hosseini, born 1939, chief Islamic leader of Iran since 1989.

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Khamenei British  

/ ˌxɑməˈnɪ /

noun

1. Ayatollah Seyed Ali (ˈseɪjət). born 1940, Iranian political and religious leader: president (1981–89); supreme leader from 1989

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Example Sentences

The latter is the current predicament of Iran’s 86-year-old supreme leader, Ali Khamenei.

From The Wall Street Journal

Now when Mr. Khamenei pronounces on critical issues, VIPs he once humbled contradict him.

From The Wall Street Journal

Shortly after that, Ali Larijani, the secretary to the Supreme National Security Council—a talented layman whom Mr. Khamenei had once cast out of his inner circle—decided to rewrite history and the revolution’s categorical imperative: “Iran’s leaders did not have an inherent hostility toward the West; rather, it was the West’s political and security behavior that led to a crisis of cooperation.”

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Mr. Khamenei and his diplomats have often played a subtle game for the benefit of Westerners.

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Today, the defiance of Mr. Khamenei appears neither scripted nor rehearsed.

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