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Who is actually ruling Iran right now?

A man walks past a huge mourning banner depicting Iran's current supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei and his late father Ali Khamenei, who was killed in a strike on the first day of the US-Israeli war against the Iran on February 28, 2026. | AFP via Getty Images For 36 years, the question of who ultimately ruled Iran had one answer: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. While Iran has an elected president and legislature, that power is subordinate to the religious supreme leader, who has the last say over all foreign and domestic policies and is the commander in chief of Iran’s convention...