Khojaste Bagherzadeh

Mansoureh Khojaste Bagherzadeh (born 14 March 1947) is the wife of Ali Khamenei, the current Supreme Leader of Iran.

She was born in a religious family in Mashhad. Her father was Mohammad Esmaeil Khojaste Bagherzadeh, a famous businessman in Mashhad. She is also the sister of Hassan Khojaste Bagherzadeh, former deputy director of IRIB.^[2] She first met Ali Khamenei in a private ceremony in 1964. They were married in the following year. Their marriage sermon was read by Ayatollah Mohammad Hadi Milani.^[3]

The couple has six children, four sons and two daughters. The first is Mostafa, a cleric that is married to Ayatollah Aziz Khoshvaght's daughter. Mojtaba is the second and most famous child of the family. He is the son-in-law of former Iranian Parliament chairman, Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel. The third son is Masoud who is said to work in Ayatollah Khamenei's office. He is married to Mohsen Kharazi's daughter. The fourth and last son of the couple is Meysam, married to Mahmoud Lochachian, an Iranian businessman's daughter. He is also an employee of Ayatollah Khamenei's office. The couple's first daughter is Boshra, married with Mohammad Javad Golpayegani, son of Mohammad Golpayegan, Khamenei's chief of staff. The last child of the family is Hoda, who is married to Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani's nephew.

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