{"id":86995,"date":"2026-03-01T14:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T14:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/how-ayatollah-ali-khamenei-became-supreme-leader-of-iran-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T14:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T14:46:09","slug":"how-ayatollah-ali-khamenei-became-supreme-leader-of-iran-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/how-ayatollah-ali-khamenei-became-supreme-leader-of-iran-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"How Ayatollah Ali Khamenei became supreme leader of Iran | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in his office on Saturday morning during a US-Israeli attack.<\/p>\n<p>The death <!--more--> of the 86-year-old ruler of the past three decades was announced by US President Donald Trump and later confirmed on Iranian state TV.<\/p>\n<p>Ali Khamenei was born in the city of Mashhad in 1939, and he would later join the religious opposition movement of Ayatollah Khomeini.<\/p>\n<p>After the Islamic Revolution in 1979, Ali Khamenei became deputy defence minister and helped organise the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps.<\/p>\n<p>When Khomeini died in 1989, Ali Khamenei was selected to be the new supreme leader.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#Iran #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in his office on Saturday morning during a US-Israeli attack. The death<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}