Biography of H. E. Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei
The Leader of The Islamic Republic of IRAN
Childhood and Education
Sayyed Ali Khamenei was born in Mashad, the holiest city, in the north-eastern province of Khorasan, in 1939. Both his parents belonged to clergy's families and spent the year 1964, he achieved the highest degrees in his theological studies at the Theological Academy of Qum but continued his studies at the Theological Academy at Mashad up to the age of twenty-nine
