Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Supreme Leader Of Ir 2024 Election. Iranians choose a president on friday in a tightly controlled election following ebrahim raisi's death in a helicopter crash last month, with the outcome expected to influence the succession to. Iranians brandish portraits of ayatollah ali khamenei, background,.

Key to this decision is the upcoming election of the assembly of experts, the body that will decide who will replace supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei, 84, as the most powerful. Supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei, who has called voting a religious duty, was the first to cast his vote in iran.