Mansoureh Khojaste Bagherzadeh

Mansoureh Khojasteh Bagherzadeh (; born ) is the widow of Ali Khamenei, the third president of Iran from 1981 to 1989 and the second supreme leader of Iran from 1989 until his assassination in 2026.

Khojasteh Bagherzadeh was born in Mashhad, Iran, and married Khamenei in 1964. The couple had six children and she maintained a largely private public profile despite her husband's political role.

Early life and marriage Khojasteh Bagherzadeh was born in an Iranian religious family in Mashhad. Her father was Mohammad Esmaeil Khojasteh Bagherzadeh, a famous businessman in Mashhad. She first met Ali Khamenei in a private ceremony organized by Khamenei's mother in 1964, and they were wed the same year. The wedding was paid for by Bagherzadeh's family.

Mostafa, who is mostly engaged in seminary studies. He married the daughter of Azizollah Khoshvaght. Mojtaba, who is more prominent in the country's media and politics. He married Zahra Haddad-Adel, daughter of Gholam Ali Haddad Adel in 1999. She was killed during the assassination of Ali Khamenei. In 2026, Mojtaba was elected the 3rd Supreme Leader of Iran, succeeding his father. Masoud married the daughter of Seyyed Mohsen Kharazi and has a family relationship with Kamal and Sadegh Kharazi. Meysam married the daughter of Mahmoud Lolachian, one of Tehran's religious bazaar merchants. Like Seyyed Masoud, he also collaborates with the office for preserving and publishing the works of "the Leader of the Revolution". Boshra married the son of Mohammad Mohammadi Golpayegani. She and her daughter Zahra Mohammadi Golpayegani died during the airstrikes that resulted in the death of Ali Khamenei. She had sat for another interview with the Islamic Republican newspaper in 1983. that Bagherzadeh had died on 2 March 2026 during the Iran war, from injuries sustained in the same United States and Israeli airstrike that killed her husband two days earlier. However, the Fars News Agency announced on 12 March 2026 that she was still alive.