Government Posts
Since the founding of the Islamic Republic, Khamenei has held many government posts
- 1979 – Founded the Islamic Republic Party, along with like-minded clerics such as Mohammad Beheshti, Mohammad Javad Bahonar, Abdolkarim Mousavi Ardebili, and Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
- 1980 – Secretary of Defense.
- 1980 – Supervisor of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards.
- 1980 – Leader of the Friday Congregational Prayer.
- 1980 – The Tehran Representative in the Consultative Assembly.
- 1981 – Ayatollah Khomeini's Representative in the High Security Council.
- 1981 – Elected President of the Islamic Republic of Iran after assassination of Muahmmad Ali Raja’i, and was re-elected to a second term in 1985.
- 1982 – chairman of the High Council of Revolution Culture Affairs.
- 1988 – President of the Expediency Council.
- 1989 – Chairman of the Constitution Revisal Committee.
- 1989 – Khamenei became the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran by choice of the Council of Experts, after the death of Ayatollah Khomeini.
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