Masoud Khamenei

Masoud Khamenei
مسعود خامنه‌ای
Photograph of Khamenei at the age of 40 being dressed in clerical clothing
Khamenei in 2026
Head of the Office for the Preservation of the Works of Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Incumbent
Assumed office
6 June 2013
Supreme LeaderAli Khamenei
Mojtaba Khamenei
Preceded byAlireza Barazesh
Personal details
BornMasoud Hosseini Khamenei
1974 (age 51–52)
Mashhad, Khorasan Province, Imperial State of Iran
Parents
RelativesKhamenei family
EducationIslamic Seminary of Qom
Personal life
EducationQom Seminary
Religious life
ReligionShia Islam
DenominationTwelver
JurisprudenceUsuli
Senior posting
Teacher

Masoud Hosseini Khamenei (born 1974), also known as Mohsen Khamenei is an Iranian Twelver Shia cleric. A member of the Khamenei family, he is the third son of the second Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei, and the younger brother of the third and current supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei.

Khamenei is studying and teaching in the seminary of Qom; and is a member in Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom (Persian: جامعهٔ مدرسین حوزهٔ علمیهٔ قم). Seyyed Khamenei does not have governmental/non-governmental or formal position; moreover, his father (Ali Khamenei) has prohibited his son(s) from accepting governmental, or similar positions. According to Mehr News Agency, Masoud has the most attention out of Ali's sons in collecting the memoirs of his father and likewise in running the former Supreme Leader's activities related to his publications and preservation.

Personal life

Family

Khamenei holds the title of Hojjat ol-Eslam, and is the husband of Sadiq-Kharazi's sister; likewise, he is the son-in-law of Mohsen Kharazi (Tehran's representative in the assembly of experts).

Khamenei's family are among the Iranian Sayyid families who are from Hosseini Sayyid, and their lineage is connected to the fourth Imam of Shia Islam, Ali ibn Husayn Zayn al-Abidin (Persian/Arabic: علی بن حسین، زین العابدین) (known as "Imam Sajjad"), according to "Khamenei family tree". Khamenei married the daughter of Mohsen Kharazi.

Wealth

Khamenei manages several of his family institutions. He reportedly holds over $400 million in banks in France and United Kingdom, with additional $100 million in Tehran, Iran. Khamenei also controls the sales of Renault vehicles in Iran.

Notes

  1. ↑ Persian: مسعود حسینی خامنه‌ای, romanized: Masoud Hoseyni Xâmene'i
  2. ↑ Persian: محسن خامنه‌ای, romanized: Mohsan Xâmene'i

References

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  5. ↑ Who is Seyyed Masoud Khamenei? radiofarda.com
  6. ↑ "شغل-فرزندان-مقام-معظم-رهبري" [Occupations of the son(s) of Seyyed Ali Khamenei –among Seyyed Mostafa]. porseman.com (in Persian). Archived from the original on 16 November 2019. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
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  10. ↑ "فرزند رهبر انقلاب به همراه پدر همسرش" [Seyyed Masoud Khamenei, beside his father-in-law (Seyyed Mohsen Kharazi) – Portrait]. aghigh.ir (in Persian). 31 March 2014. Retrieved 26 June 2025.
  11. ↑ Photo -- Seyyed Masoud Khamenei, beside his father-in-law (Seyyed Mohsen Kharazi) cloob.com Retrieved 9 December 2019
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  14. ↑ MarkazeAsnade Enqelab-Eslami --Arshiv (Document Center Archive), No. 1225
  15. ↑ Golshane Abrar (a group of Qom seminary researchers); Vol. 2, P 973; (Institute Baqerol-Olum (related to Islamic Development Organization); Ma'refat Publications (1382 Sh), Second Edition
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  20. ↑ Pure tree (al-Shajarah al-Tayebbah), Seyyed Fazel al-Mousavi al-Safavi (Khalkhali-Zadeh)
  21. ↑ Seyyed Masoud Khamenei, beside his father-in-law (Seyyed Mohsen Kharazi) – Portrait Archived 14 April 2024 at the Wayback Machine, aghigh.ir, retrieved 23 November 2019
  22. ↑ Staff Writer (16 July 2015). "IRAN: Ali Khamenei's family wealth". NCRI. Retrieved 12 December 2024.
  23. ↑ "Disclosure of wealth of Khamenei's sons by Hashemi Rafsanjani". International Institute for Iranian Studies (in Arabic). 6 October 2016. Retrieved 12 December 2024.