When he first appeared in the public in five years in October, the Supreme Leader Iran, Ayatolah Ali Hosseini Khamenei, had an uncompromising message. Israel “will not last long,” said tens of thousands of supporters in the mosque in Tehran on Friday Sermons.
“We need to oppose the enemy, at the same time strengthening his unwavering faith,” said 84-year-old said gathering.
Dani earlier, Israel killed Hassan Nasrallaha, Secretary General Veteran Hezbollah, with huge bombs fell to the seat of the militant Islamist movement in Beirut. The assassination was the personal shot of Khamenei, who knew Nasrallah for decades.
The Israeli air offensive against Iran was launched on Friday, another shot. He called more deflections from Tehran, and the barbelity of rockets and drones was launched in Tel Aviv, but it doesn’t probably stop the Israeli attacks. The Iranian air defense is obviously an inefficient and coalition of the Islamist militia that Hameney built that Israel was dejected effectively.
Khamenei now has several good options – a situation that is a careful, pragmatic, conservative and reckless revolutionary revolutionary, always wanted to avoid.
Born son of minor priests of modest funds in the Eastern Iranian Sanctuary of the city on Mashhad, Khamenei took his first steps as a radical in a febrile atmosphere in the early 1960s. Then Shah Mohammad Sleza Pahlavi, launched the main project of reforms, which has greatly rejected the Conservative Clariness of the Earth.
As a young religious student in KOM, the center of theology, Khamenei has soaked in traditions of Shia Islam and radical new thinking about the emerging leader, Ayatolah Ruhollah Khomeini. At the end of the 1960s, Khamenei launched secret missions for Khomeini, who were exiled and organized by the networks of Islamist activism.
Khamenei also swollen other influences. Though Trained femeries Western literatureEspecially Leo Tolstoy, Victor Hugo and John Steinbeck, a young activist was patting in anti-colonial ideological times and anti-Western seats that often went with them. He met the thinkers who wanted to make Molxism and Islamism create new ideologies, they loved the works that describe “Westoxification” of his country, Saiid Saiid Kutb, Egypt who would inspire the generations of Islamist extremists.
He was closed several times by Iran’s fears of security services, Stoney could still participate in huge protests from 1978. years who eventually convinced Shah to escape and allowed Khomeini to return. Protection of an undesirable priest, quickly increased the hierarchy of a radical regime that seized strength and until 1981. years, after survival Attempted assassination It deprived the use of the hand, won the elections in the largest ceremonial position of the president.
When Khomeini died in 1989. year, Khamenei was chosen as his successor, after the constitution changed to allow someone from minor priestly qualifications to take on a role and with much higher powers than before. Khamenei quickly scheduled to consolidate his control over strong and fragmented apparatus of the Iranian personality.
One key forces was Islamic Revolutionary Gardit (IRGC), beating the activist heart of a new regime and powerful military, social and economic forces. But Khamenei, as always, was careful to find other powerful allies and clients.
Until the 1990s, she further strengthened his grip, eliminating his opponents and awarded him olova. Even the poets of Khamenei once resorted to admire, were targeted with security services. Overseas dissents is located and a relationship with Hezbollah, which IRGC helped to be found after the revolution, reinforced.
At any point, he followed its strategy for pragmatic advancement of the nephlicial principles of the project set by the late mentor.
When in 1997. Mohammad Khatami, a reformist candidate won the presidency in the landslide, Khamenei allowed him some freedom of action, but she worked hard and worked hard and often on force to protect the core of the regime and its ideology from any serious challenge.
Khamenei, however, stopped by the Khatami to reach Washington at the end of the Abortive. September attacks in 2001. years and, after Khomei’s example,, for example, Hhomei, cordial weapons of mass destruction.
But he also supported IRGC efforts to bleed US forces in Iraq after their invasion for 2003. year and expand Iranian influence to the neighboring country. This marked further enlargement of its reliance strategy at the project into force across the region and distracted and threatened to Israel, called Mali Satan by revolutionary in 1979. year as a great satanin of the United States.
Khamenei was skeptical towards nuclear offers, and Iranian officials negotiated with the United States and others, but did not oppose their implementation in 2015. years. Analysts relate to whether he tried to restrain or encourage Hardliners in the IRGC, which was sought in the IRGC.
Successive waves of unrest and effort for reforms are filled with nature of malice, together with constant sharp treatment of measures targeted by women, gays and religious minorities. This, together with the deteriorating economic circumstances, disappointed many former supporters of the regime and expanded existing unrest.
Overseas, Khamenei was chosen to take a great deal of resistance – Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, Houthy Movement in Yemen and Motley’s Assortment of Islamic Militant Militia in Syria and Iraq. It may have made a smart tactic, but crashed under the weight of Israeli attacks, while Iran’s historical alliance with Damascus ended with a drop in Bashara Al-Assad in December.
Living in a compound with her husband and children on Palestine Street in Tehran, Khamenei stressed his humble lifestyle. Some skeptics suspected whether his asceticism was quite authentic as presented, but his reputation for modesty, which is contrary to the harmful wealth of many other officials, rejected some popular anger.
Kamenius has been in power for more than three decades, it sought to move pressure from the conflicting forces within Iran, to avoid the open war and to preserve Khomeini’s legacy – as well as his own power and that power and that of his immediate loyalist.
It’s sick now. Speculations over the heir is full. The long career is approaching the approaching the old man’s biggest challenge. The Law on Brutal Balancing can soon be finished.
