![]() Khamenei's ancestor was Seyed Hossein Tafrechi, whose lineage is said to date back to the fourth Shia Imam Ali Zeyn-ol-Abedin, giving the family a traditional legitimacy as a sign of belonging to the Prophet's family, male family members joining the Shia clergy would wear a black turban. Second son of eight children, two of his brothers are also clerics. His father, Seyed Javad Khamenei, was born in Najaf, a holy city in Iraq, while his mother Khadijeh Mirdamadi, herself, came from a religious family. He was born to an Azeri father (the Iranian Turkish-speaking minority), within a religious family of clerics. Ayatollah Khamenei was born in 1939 in Mashad, in Northeastern Iran, the city where the tomb of Imam Reza is located, the eighth Shia Imam. ![]()
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