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Mansoureh Khojasteh Bagherzadeh, wife of Ali Khamenei
The Iranian press announced that Mansoureh Khojasteh Bagherzadeh, Ali Khamenei’s wife, who had been in a coma since Saturday’s attacks that killed the Iranian leader, succumbed to her injuries and passed away this Monday.
Supreme leader Ali Khamenei’s wife, Mansoureh Khojasteh Bagherzadehwho was injured in the American and Israeli who killed her husband, ended up succumbing to her injuries, reports the Iranian news agency Tasnim.
The Iranian state broadcaster Press TV also reported this Monday that this Bagherzadeh had “achieved martyrdom” after Saturday’s attacks. Official confirmation from the Iranian authorities is still awaited. According to information from the Iranian state press, the attack also caused the deaths of others Khamenei’s close family members, including a daughterdaughter-in-law, son-in-law and one of his granddaughters.
Mansoureh Khojasteh Bagherzadeh lived practically outside the spotlight. Born in 1947, in Mashhad, the second largest city in Iran, within a renowned merchant family ethnic Persian, she married Khamenei in 1964. They had six children: four boys and two girls.
The father, Mohammad Esmail Khojasteh Bagherzadeh, was known as a prosperous businessmanand his brother, Hassan Khojaste Bagherzadeh, held the position of deputy director of the Iranian state broadcaster IRIB.
Through decades of political turmoil, including the years before the 1979 revolution during which Khamenei was detained by the Shah’s regime, the discreetly supported.
Unlike many consorts of political figures of Iran, has never assumed public responsibilities or played any formal role. His life, like the rest of his family, was away from the cameras and speeches.
According to , the daughter-in-law was identified as Zahra Haddad Adelwoman of Mojtaba Khamenei. However, the identities of the deceased family members have not yet been officially confirmed.
This Saturday’s attacks on Tehran devastated the hierarchy of the Iranian regime, which , and saw its military leadership .
According to North American sources, in addition to the Minister of Defense, Amir Nasirzadeh, the commander of the Revolutionary Guard, Mohammad Pakpour, the Head of the National Defense Council Ali Shamkhani, and the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces, and Sayyid Abdolrahim Mousavi, more than 40 figures at the top of the military hierarchy of Iran.
