People from Mashhad - Ali Khamenei, Ali Al-Sistani, Iran Darroudi, Nasir Al-Din Al-Tusi, Anousheh Ansari, Ferdowsi, Mohammad-Taqi Bahar (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 42. Chapters: Ali Khamenei, Ali al-Sistani, Iran Darroudi, Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Anousheh Ansari, Ferdowsi, Mohammad-Taqi Bahar, Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht, Mohammad-Reza Shajarian, Mehdi Akhavan-Sales, Khodadad Azizi, Reza Enayati, Ehsan Jami, Mohammad-Ali Abtahi, Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, Morteza Motahhari, Noureddin Zarrinkelk, Hossein Badamaki, Heshmat Mohajerani, Abolfazl Attar, Kia Zolgharnain, Darya Dadvar, Mahmoud Khayami, Abdul Rahman Saleem, Mehdi Vaezi, Hossein Sabet, Hamed Afagh, Abdi Behravanfar, Ahmad Ahmadi, Saeed Jalili, Seyed Mehdi Qiyassi, Rasoul Khadem, Rafi Pitts, Kamran Afshar Naderi, Manouchehr Eghbal, Ershad Yousefi, Amir Reza Khadem, Mordechai Zar, Reza Ghoochannejhad, Ali Hanteh, Hamed Behdad, Karim Masroor, Hossein Vahid Khorasani, Dariush Arjmand, Marshall Manesh, Hamid Motebassem, Seyed Kazem Ghiyassian, Reza Kianian, Reza Hosseini, Shahin Assayesh, Shapour Mozaffari, Mitra Hajjar, Mohammad Khadem, Mansour Nariman. Excerpt: Ayatollah Seyed Ali Hoseyni Kh mene'i (Persian: , Azerbaijani: , pronounced; born 17 July 1939), is an Iranian politician as the figurative head of the Muslim conservative establishment in Iran and Twelver Shi'a marja. In 2010, Forbes selected him 26th in the list of 'World's Most Powerful People'. He was president of Iran from 1981 to 1989, and has been Supreme Leader of Iran since June 1989 when the Assembly of Experts appointed him to succeed Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. He has been described as one of only three people having "important influences" on the Islamic Republic of Iran (the other two being the founder of the republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, and the president of Iran for much of the 1990s, Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani). So far, the biggest challenge to his leadership has been the mass protests following the June 2009 presidential elections. Khamenei, however, ...