Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s family: Get to know Iran’s supreme leader’s wives, children and grandchildren

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Throughout his tenure, Khamenei China has a contentious relationship with the West, facing tough sanctions and waves of domestic protests over economic and human rights issues. He called the United States Iran’s “number one enemy”, with Israel not far behind.

U.S. and Israeli officials have previously issued threats against Khamenei.

In June, after 12 days of conflict over US-Israeli attacks on Iran and Tehran’s response to Israel, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said that dictators like Khamenei “cannot continue to exist.”

Last year, Trump claimed that Khamenei would be an “easy target” if the United States decided to go after him.

However, Khamenei Iran has always insisted that it will never develop nuclear weapons and that its nuclear program is only for civilian use. Neither U.S. intelligence agencies nor the U.N. nuclear watchdog have found any evidence that Iran is seeking to build atomic weapons, despite claims promoted by Israel and some members of the Trump administration.

Amid the escalating conflict, many on social media began asking questions about Khamenei’s family.

Khamenei’s wife, Mansoure Khojast Baghzadeh, rarely appears in public. Her father, Mohammad Esmaeil Khojasteh Bagherzadeh, is a prominent businessman in Mashhad, and her brother, Hassan, served as deputy director of state broadcaster IRIB, Iran International reported.

According to public reports, he has three daughters, namely Hoda, Meysam and Bushra. In addition, he has several grandsons, but the name of only one grandson, Mohammad Bagher Khamenei, has been revealed.