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The
Supreme Leader of Iran
is the
head of state
of the Islamic Republic of
Iran
.
The Supreme Leader is also the highest ranking
Islamic cleric
in the country.
The position of
Supreme Leader
was created after the
Islamic Revolution
of 1979 in Iran.
The Supreme Leader is more powerful than the
President of Iran
and chooses the heads of many powerful posts in the
military
, the
government
, and the
judiciary
.
Ayatollah Khomeini
(died 1989) and
Imam Khamenei
have become Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic so far.