Khamenei's Iran: How the Supreme Leader Holds Power

For more than three decades, Ali Khamenei has presided over one of the world's most complex theocratic systems-outlasting sanctions, uprisings, and the death of the revolution's founder. Yet his grip on power remains poorly understood outside specialist circles. He is neither a charismatic populist nor a conventional autocrat, but something harder to categorize: a ideological arbiter who rules thr...