Ali Khamenei (Simple English Wikipedia)

Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Ali Khamenei" in Simple English language version.

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al-monitor.com (Global: 2,675^th place; Simple English: 2,046^th place)

"Khamenei says Iran must go green". Al-Monitor. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 31 March 2016.

aljazeera.com (Global: 268^th place; Simple English: 185^th place)

"Iran's Khamenei says US, Israel links behind 'thousands killed' in protests". Al Jazeera. 17 January 2026.

apnews.com (Global: 129^th place; Simple English: 140^th place)

Jon Gambrell; Melanie Lidman; Josh Boak; Eric Tucker (2026-02-28). "Iranian state media say country's supreme leader is dead". AP News. Retrieved 2026-03-01. Citing unidentified sources, the semiofficial Fars news agency, believed to be close to the Revolutionary Guard, reported that several relatives of Khamenei were also killed, including a daughter, son-in-law, daughter-in-law and grandchild.

atimes.com (Global: 5,506^th place; Simple English: 2,267^th place)

"Iran at sea over Azerbaijan". Asia Times. 28 September 2004. Archived from the original on 23 April 2005. Retrieved 19 June 2009. Another ethnic Azeri is Rahim Safavi, the overall commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and the most important military-security official in the country.

baharnews.ir (Global: low place; Simple English: low place)

"بیوگرافی خواهر متوفی رهبر انقلاب". baharnews.ir (in Persian). Bahar News. 23 March 2015. Retrieved 19 November 2020.

bbc.com (Global: 20^th place; Simple English: 17^th place)

"Trump says US has bombed Fordo nuclear plant in attack on Iran". BBC News. 21 June 2025. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
"Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead, state media says". BBC. February 28, 2026. Retrieved February 28, 2026.

books.google.com (Global: 3^rd place; Simple English: 2^nd place)

Kahlili, Reza (2013). A Time to Betray - A Gripping True Spy Story of Betrayal, Fear, and Courage. Threshold Editions. p. 155. ISBN 978-1-4391-8968-9.

cgie.org.ir (Global: 2,835^th place; Simple English: low place)

Velayati, Ali Akbar. "Ayatollah Ali Khamenei". The Great Islamic Encyclopedia (in Persian). Archived from the original on 11 February 2017. Retrieved 3 April 2017.

doi.org (Global: 2^nd place; Simple English: 3^rd place)

Kazemzadeh, Masoud (2013). "Ayatollah Khamenei's Foreign Policy Orientation". Comparative Strategy. 32 (5): 443–458. doi:10.1080/01495933.2013.840208. eISSN 1521-0448. ISSN 0149-5933. S2CID 153558136.

entekhab.ir (Global: 3,193^rd place; Simple English: low place)

"توضیحات مجلس خبرگان درباره جلسه انتخاب آیت‌الله خامنه‌ای به عنوان رهبر در سال 1368/ آیت‌الله گلپایگانی فقط 14 رأی داشت". Entekhab.^{[permanent dead link]}

fararu.com (Global: 3,095^th place; Simple English: low place)

"جامعه روحانيت مبارز جوان مي‌شود" [Combatant Clergy Association gets younger] (in Persian). Fararu. 8 July 2012. 118101. Archived from the original on 2 September 2016. Retrieved 25 June 2016.

foreignaffairs.com (Global: 3,234^th place; Simple English: 5,665^th place)

Kendall-Taylor, Andrea; Fontaine, Richard (23 April 2024). "The Axis of Upheaval - How America's Adversaries Are Uniting to Overturn the Global Order". Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 18 March 2025.

hashemirafsanjani.ir (Global: low place; Simple English: low place)

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. پیام تسلیت هاشمی به آیت‌الله خامنه‌ای/ اعلام برنامه وزرای کشاورزی و نیرو به هاشمی (in Persian). Archived from the original on 2016-01-06.

inews.co.uk (Global: 1,084^th place; Simple English: 2,290^th place)

Sanya Burgess; Molly Blackall (2026-03-01). "How Trump and Israel's killing of Khamenei played out - hour by hour". The i Paper. Retrieved 2026-03-02.

iranchamber.com (Global: 6,993^rd place; Simple English: 4,622^nd place)

"History of Iran - Iran after the victory of 1979's Revolution". Iran Chamber. Archived from the original on 9 April 2009. Retrieved 19 June 2009.

irinnews.org (Global: 5,284^th place; Simple English: 7,182^nd place)

"Azeris unhappy at being the butt of national jokes". irinnews.org. UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. 25 May 2006. Archived from the original on 14 August 2007. Retrieved 19 June 2009.

islamicinfocenter.com (Global: low place; Simple English: low place)

"Ayatollah Khamenei Death: Official Confirmation". Islamic Info Center. 2026-03-01. Retrieved 2026-03-01.

khamenei.ir (Global: 5,786^th place; Simple English: low place)

farsi.khamenei.ir

"A photo of Identity document of Ayatollah Khamenei". farsi.khamenei.ir (in Persian). 1 February 2010. Archived from the original on 14 August 2017. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
"taking look at the biography of Ali Khamenei". farsi.khamenei.ir. 21 March 2014. Retrieved 21 March 2014.

english.khamenei.ir

Detailed biography of Ayatollah Khamenei, Leader of Islamic Revolution, Khamenei.ir, 23 September 2013, archived from the original on 10 April 2016, retrieved 17 March 2016

leader.ir (Global: low place; Simple English: low place)

"The Office of the Leader, Seyyed Ali Khamenei". leader.ir. Archived from the original on 18 June 2009. Retrieved 19 June 2009.

loc.gov (Global: 70^th place; Simple English: 83^rd place)

webarchive.loc.gov

"Iran at sea over Azerbaijan". Asia Times. 28 September 2004. Archived from the original on 23 April 2005. Retrieved 19 June 2009. Another ethnic Azeri is Rahim Safavi, the overall commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and the most important military-security official in the country.

majlis.ir (Global: 3,053^rd place; Simple English: low place)

rc.majlis.ir

"Parliament members" (in Persian). Iranian Majlis. Archived from the original on 7 July 2014. Retrieved 28 October 2014.

mashreghnews.ir (Global: 2,084^th place; Simple English: low place)

"چه کسی در نخستین انتخابات خبرگان اول شد؟ +جدول". mashreghnews.ir. 7 January 2014. Archived from the original on 10 October 2017.

nbcnews.com (Global: 137^th place; Simple English: 77^th place)

Guilfoil, Kyla (28 February 2026). "Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead, Iranian media confirms". NBC News. Retrieved 1 March 2026.

negineiran.ir (Global: low place; Simple English: low place)

Raee, Sajjad (Winter 2008). Ardestani, Hussein (ed.). نقش آیت‌الله خامنه‌ای در دفاع مقدس: سال اول جنگ [Ayatollah Khamanei's Role in the Sacred Defense - During the First Year] (PDF). Negin-e Iran - Quarterly for Studies of Iran–Iraq War (in Persian). 7 (26): 9–24. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 April 2016. Retrieved 15 January 2018.

newsweek.com (Global: 269^th place; Simple English: 517^th place)

"Khamenei Will Be Iran's Last Supreme Leader". Newsweek. 17 November 2009. Archived from the original on 16 September 2017. referring to the enormous power Khamenei has given Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, which, under Khamenei's direct control, has brutally repressed demonstrators, human rights activists, and opposition journalists

nytimes.com (Global: 7^th place; Simple English: 8^th place)

"Update from David E. Sanger". The New York Times. 21 June 2025. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 22 June 2025.

princeton.edu (Global: 741^st place; Simple English: 415^th place)

"1982 Assembly of Experts Election", The Iran Social Science Data Portal, Princeton University Press, archived from the original on 19 October 2015, retrieved 10 August 2015

reuters.com (Global: 49^th place; Simple English: 70^th place)

Louis Charbonneau and Parisa Hafezi (16 May 2014). "Iran pursues ballistic missile work, complicating nuclear talks". Reuters. Archived from the original on 31 July 2017.

semanticscholar.org (Global: 11^th place; Simple English: 9^th place)

api.semanticscholar.org

Kazemzadeh, Masoud (2013). "Ayatollah Khamenei's Foreign Policy Orientation". Comparative Strategy. 32 (5): 443–458. doi:10.1080/01495933.2013.840208. eISSN 1521-0448. ISSN 0149-5933. S2CID 153558136.

seratnews.ir (Global: low place; Simple English: low place)

"آشنایی با فرزندان مقام معظم رهبری". seratnews.ir. Archived from the original on 28 January 2015. Retrieved 27 January 2015.

thedailybeast.com (Global: 330^th place; Simple English: 318^th place)

Majd, Hooman (19 February 2009). "Change Comes to Iran". The Daily Beast. Archived from the original on 16 January 2010. Retrieved 20 February 2009. Ali Khamenei [...] while ethnically Turkic is also half Yazdi, but he seems not to have inherited the timidity gene from his mother

theguardian.com (Global: 12^th place; Simple English: 11^th place)

"Iran's supreme leader accuses Saudis of "genocide" in Yemen". The Guardian. 9 April 2015.
"Niece of Iran's supreme leader calls on other countries to cut ties with regime". The Guardian. 27 November 2022. Retrieved 30 November 2022.

uniindia.com (Global: 7,130^th place; Simple English: 4,063^rd place)

"Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, the longest-serving Head of State in the Middle East". UIIndia. Retrieved 2 March 2026.

usip.org (Global: 7,512^th place; Simple English: 8,136^th place)

iranprimer.usip.org

"The Supreme Leader – The Iran Primer". 2 October 2010. Archived from the original on 30 June 2016. Retrieved 1 July 2016.

web.archive.org (Global: 1^st place; Simple English: 1^st place)

"1982 Assembly of Experts Election", The Iran Social Science Data Portal, Princeton University Press, archived from the original on 19 October 2015, retrieved 10 August 2015
"چه کسی در نخستین انتخابات خبرگان اول شد؟ +جدول". mashreghnews.ir. 7 January 2014. Archived from the original on 10 October 2017.
"Parliament members" (in Persian). Iranian Majlis. Archived from the original on 7 July 2014. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
"A photo of Identity document of Ayatollah Khamenei". farsi.khamenei.ir (in Persian). 1 February 2010. Archived from the original on 14 August 2017. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
"جامعه روحانيت مبارز جوان مي‌شود" [Combatant Clergy Association gets younger] (in Persian). Fararu. 8 July 2012. 118101. Archived from the original on 2 September 2016. Retrieved 25 June 2016.
Velayati, Ali Akbar. "Ayatollah Ali Khamenei". The Great Islamic Encyclopedia (in Persian). Archived from the original on 11 February 2017. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
Raee, Sajjad (Winter 2008). Ardestani, Hussein (ed.). نقش آیت‌الله خامنه‌ای در دفاع مقدس: سال اول جنگ [Ayatollah Khamanei's Role in the Sacred Defense - During the First Year] (PDF). Negin-e Iran - Quarterly for Studies of Iran–Iraq War (in Persian). 7 (26): 9–24. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 April 2016. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
Detailed biography of Ayatollah Khamenei, Leader of Islamic Revolution, Khamenei.ir, 23 September 2013, archived from the original on 10 April 2016, retrieved 17 March 2016
"The Supreme Leader – The Iran Primer". 2 October 2010. Archived from the original on 30 June 2016. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
"The Office of the Leader, Seyyed Ali Khamenei". leader.ir. Archived from the original on 18 June 2009. Retrieved 19 June 2009.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. پیام تسلیت هاشمی به آیت‌الله خامنه‌ای/ اعلام برنامه وزرای کشاورزی و نیرو به هاشمی (in Persian). Archived from the original on 2016-01-06.
"Iran and the Caucasus - The Triumph of Pragmatism over Ideology – Centre for World Dialogue". worlddialogue.org. Archived from the original on 27 September 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
"Azeris unhappy at being the butt of national jokes". irinnews.org. UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. 25 May 2006. Archived from the original on 14 August 2007. Retrieved 19 June 2009.
Majd, Hooman (19 February 2009). "Change Comes to Iran". The Daily Beast. Archived from the original on 16 January 2010. Retrieved 20 February 2009. Ali Khamenei [...] while ethnically Turkic is also half Yazdi, but he seems not to have inherited the timidity gene from his mother
"History of Iran - Iran after the victory of 1979's Revolution". Iran Chamber. Archived from the original on 9 April 2009. Retrieved 19 June 2009.
"Khamenei Will Be Iran's Last Supreme Leader". Newsweek. 17 November 2009. Archived from the original on 16 September 2017. referring to the enormous power Khamenei has given Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, which, under Khamenei's direct control, has brutally repressed demonstrators, human rights activists, and opposition journalists
"Khamenei says Iran must go green". Al-Monitor. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 31 March 2016.
Louis Charbonneau and Parisa Hafezi (16 May 2014). "Iran pursues ballistic missile work, complicating nuclear talks". Reuters. Archived from the original on 31 July 2017.
"آشنایی با فرزندان مقام معظم رهبری". seratnews.ir. Archived from the original on 28 January 2015. Retrieved 27 January 2015.

worldcat.org (Global: 5^th place; Simple English: 5^th place)

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Kazemzadeh, Masoud (2013). "Ayatollah Khamenei's Foreign Policy Orientation". Comparative Strategy. 32 (5): 443–458. doi:10.1080/01495933.2013.840208. eISSN 1521-0448. ISSN 0149-5933. S2CID 153558136.
"Update from David E. Sanger". The New York Times. 21 June 2025. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 22 June 2025.

worlddialogue.org (Global: low place; Simple English: low place)

"Iran and the Caucasus - The Triumph of Pragmatism over Ideology – Centre for World Dialogue". worlddialogue.org. Archived from the original on 27 September 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2014.

yahoo.com (Global: 38^th place; Simple English: 36^th place)

uk.news.yahoo.com

Stewart, Phil; Hafezi, Parisa; Rose, Emily; Mills, Andrew (2026-02-28). "Iranian leader Khamenei killed in strikes, Israel says". Reuters: Yahoo. Retrieved 2026-02-28 – via www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/israel-us-launch-strikes-iran-2026-02-28/.

Ali Khamenei (Simple English Wikipedia)

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iranchamber.com (Global: 6,993rd place; Simple English: 4,622nd place)

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khamenei.ir (Global: 5,786th place; Simple English: low place)

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