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Mansoureh Khojasteh Bagherzadeh
Spouse of the Supreme Leader of Iran From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mansoureh Khojaste Bagherzadeh (Persian: منصوره خجسته باقرزاده; born 1947) is the wife of Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran.
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She was born in a Persian religious family in Mashhad. Her father was Mohammad Esmaeil Khojaste Bagherzadeh, a famous businessman in Mashhad. She is also the sister of Hassan Khojaste Bagherzadeh, former deputy director of IRIB.[2] She first met Ali Khamenei in a private ceremony in 1964. They were married in the following year. Their marriage sermon was read by Ayatollah Mohammad Hadi Milani.[3]
They have 4 sons and 2 daughters. Their children, in order, are Mostafa, Mojtaba, Masoud, Meysam, Boshra, and Hoda:
- Mostafa is mostly engaged in seminary studies. He has married the daughter of Azizollah Khoshvaght.
- Mojtaba, who is more prominent in the country's media and politics, is the son-in-law of Gholam Ali Haddad Adel.
- Masoud has married the daughter of Seyyed Mohsen Kharazi and has a family relationship with Kamal and Sadegh Kharazi.
- Meysam has also married the daughter of Mahmoud Lolachian, one of Tehran's religious bazaar merchants. Like Seyyed Masoud, he also collaborates with the office for preserving and publishing the works of "the Leader of the Revolution".
- Boshra has married the son of Mohammad Mohammadi Golpayegani.
- Hoda has also married the son of Mohammad-Bagher Bagheri.
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