Birth Place: | Mashhad, Imperial State of Iran |
Nationality: | Iranian |
Children: | 6, including Mostafa, Mojtaba, and Masoud |
Office: | Spouse of the Supreme Leader of Iran |
1Namedata: | Ali Khamenei |
Term Label: | Assumed role |
Term Start: | 4 June 1989 |
Predecessor: | Khadijeh Saqafi |
Office2: | Spouse of the president of Iran |
President2: | Ali Khamenei |
Term Label2: | In role |
Term Start2: | 9 October 1981 |
Term End2: | 16 August 1989 |
Predecessor2: | Ateghe Sediqi |
Successor2: | Effat Marashi |
Known For: | Spouse of the Supreme Leader of Iran (since 1989) Spouse of the President of Iran [1] |
Native Name Lang: | fa |
Mansoureh Khojaste Bagherzadeh (Persian: منصوره خجسته باقرزاده; born 1947) is the wife of Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran.
She was born in a 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]