Rahbar

History shows in fact how reluctant Khamenei was to take on the role of rahbar, or Leader, in the first place. ❋ Scott Peterson (2010)

Ayatollah Khamene`i, the rahbar or Leader, has chosen – again probably unwisely – to get out in front as the spokesman of the regime. ❋ Stephen Retherford (2009)

On the other side is Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani, the erstwhile colleague and now principal antagonist of the rahbar. ❋ Stephen Retherford (2009)

That may help explain why the rahbar and the Revolutionary Guards were so reckless in their insolent contempt of the reformers and the public. ❋ Stephen Retherford (2009)

Executive branch: supreme leader (rahbar) and functional chief of state: Leader of the ❋ United States. Central Intelligence Agency (N/A)

That, highly informed Iranian sources say, would include replacing Khamenei with a council of leaders, radically reinterpreting the Constitutional requirement for a Leader, or rahbar, who represents the velayat-e faqih principle ( "rule of the jurisprudent") with a far more flexible, collegial body. ❋ Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation (2009)

Tehran University 16 Azar - Chant Marg bar tule sagaye rahbar ❋ Unknown (2009)

Ayatollah Khamene ` i, the rahbar or Leader, has chosen - again probably unwisely - to get out in front as the spokesman of the regime. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"We only have one rahbar [supreme leader], and that is engineer Mousavi." ❋ Unknown (2009)

Iranian unrest increased until the shah fled in 1979; Khomeini returned shortly thereafter and was eventually named Iran’s political and religious leader (rahbar). ❋ Unknown (2010)

▪ the appeal to the mass of poor people (in Iran termed the mostazafin) against the corrupt, foreign-linked, elite (the mostakbarin) ▪ the cult of the leader - Khomeini's official and entirely secular state title was rahbar inqilab va bonyadgozar i jumhuri yi islami (leader of the revolution and founder of the Islamic Republic) ▪ mobilising nationalist sentiment in a country that had been unilaterally invaded, by Russia and Britain, in both world wars ❋ Unknown (2009)

Executive branch: supreme leader (rahbar-e moazam) and functional chief of sta: Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Hoseini-KHAMENEI (since 4 ❋ United States. Central Intelligence Agency (N/A)

Over all these, however, the "supreme leader" (rahbar ❋ Unknown (2008)