A ranar 28 ga watan Safar 1358 AH, aka haifi Sayyid 'Ali Khamenei, shugaban Jamhuriyar Musulunci ta Iran na biyu (Afrilu 19 1939).
An haifi Sayyid 'Ali Khamenei a ranar 28 ga Safar shekara ta 1358 bayan hijira, daidai da 19 ga Afrilu 1939, a Mashhad Iran. Ya yi aiki a matsayin Shugaban Iran na uku daga 1981 zuwa 1989, da kuma a matsayin Shugaban Koli na biyu na Jamhuriyar Musulunci ta Iran daga 1989 har zuwa rasuwarsa a watan Fabrairun 2026.
An haife shi a cikin iyali mai addini mai tawali'u a matsayin ɗa na biyu ga Sayyid Javad Khamenei.
Ya yi karatun kimiyyar addinin Musulunci da tauhidi a makarantun hauza da ke Mashhad, Qom, da Najaf. Ya yi karatu a ƙarƙashin manyan malaman addini, ciki har da Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini.
Ya yi adawa da gwamnatin Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi a shekarun 1960 da 1970, inda ya fuskanci kamu dama da kuma zaman gudun hijira. Ya yi aiki a matsayin shugaban ƙasar Iran a mafi yawancin shekarun 1980 a lokacin yaƙin Iran da Iraki mai cike da tashin hankali. Ya riƙe muƙamin Jagora a watan Yunin 1989 bayan rasuwar Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, inda ya riƙe muƙamin tsawon kusan shekaru 37.