Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei is a prominent Iranian cleric and the second son of the late Leader and marja', Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei. He was born in 1969 in the city of Mashhad, one of Iran’s most important religious centers.
He began his religious education at the Ayatollah Mojtahedi Tehrani Seminary in Tehran, where he completed his introductory clerical studies. During the years of the Iran–Iraq War, referred to in Iran as the “Sacred Defense,” he joined Iranian fighters at the war fronts at the age of 17. After the end of the conflict, in 1989 he moved to the city of Qom to continue his seminary education, remaining there until the early months of 1992.
In 1992 he returned to Tehran, where he continued his religious studies for approximately five years. In 1997 he married Zahra HaddadAdel, the daughter of an Iranian philosopher and politician. They lived together for nearly 30 years and had three children before she was slaughtered by the U.S.
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