Javad Khamenei
Sayyid Javad Khamenei was an Iranian Shia cleric. He was the father of Iran's current supreme leader, Ali Khamenei.
Early life
He was an ethnic Iranian Azeri from the city of Khameneh.He attended seminary in Najaf, Qom and Mashhad. After finishing his studies, he settled in the vicinity of Ali ibn Musa shrine in Mashhad. He was the imam of the Mashhad in an Azeri mosque. He had three daughters from his first marriage, named Alaviyeh, Batoul and Fatemeh Soltan. After the death of his first wife, he married Khadijeh Mirdamadi, an ethnic Persian, with whom he had one daughter and four sons.