Mansoureh Khojasteh Bagherzadeh, wife of Iran’s former supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has passed away. She was seriously injured in the American-Israeli air attack on Tehran, after which she died during treatment.
New Delhi: Mansoureh Khojasteh Bagherzadeh, wife of Iran’s former supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, died on Monday. According to Iranian media reports, she was seriously injured in the joint airstrike between America and Israel on Tehran. He died during treatment.
79 year old Mansoureh was born in Mashhad, Iran. It is being told that at the time when America and Israel attacked, she was present with Khamenei in his compound in Tehran. She was the sister of Hassan Khojasteh Bagherzadeh, the former deputy director of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB).
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Mansoureh have six children – four sons (Mostafa, Mojtaba, Massoud and Messam) and two daughters (Hoda and Boshra). According to reports, some of his distant relatives (grandchildren and nieces and nephews) live abroad, probably in Paris. However, his close family lives in Iran.
Mansoureh was rarely seen in public. She always maintained a low-profile during her husband’s decades-long reign. But his family has been quite influential. Mansoureh’s father Mohammad Ismail Khojasteh Bagherzadeh was a well-known businessman in Mashhad. At the same time, his brother Hassan has been the deputy director of Iran’s state broadcaster ‘Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting’ (IRIB).
Khamenei’s daughters Boshara and Hoda are married. Khamenei has several grandchildren, but their identities have never been made public. Khamenei was known as a very powerful figure in public life, but he always carefully kept his family life away from the outside world and publicity.
When America-Israel announced Khamenei’s death
Earlier, there was news of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei himself being killed after US and Israeli attacks on Iranian targets. Washington and Tel Aviv had claimed that he had died in the joint attack on Tehran. Subsequently, on March 1, Iran’s state broadcaster Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) also reported, “Iran’s supreme leader has been martyred.”