Javad Khamenei
Sayyid Javad Khamenei (7 December 1895 – 5 July 1986) () (Seyed Javad Tabrizi) was an Iranian Shia. He was the father of Iran's current supreme leader, Ali Khamenei. Early life. He is an ethnic Iranian Azeri from the city of Khameneh. He attended seminary in Najaf, Qom and Mashhad. After finishing his studies, he settled in the vicinity of Ali ibn Musa (al-Ridha) shrine in Mashhad. He was the imam of the Mashhad in an Azeri mosque (without source). He had three daughters from his first marriage, named Alaviyeh, Batoul and Fatemeh Soltan. After the death of  his first wife, he married Khadijeh Mirdamadi, an ethnic Persian, with whom he had one daughter (Badri Khamenei) and four sons (Mohammad Khamenei, Ali Khamenei, Hadi Khamenei and Mohammad Hassan Khamenei). Death. Javad Khamenei died on 5 July 1986. He was buried at the portico, behind Imam Reza Shrine, next to Dar-al-Feiz.