Question: The current longtime Supreme Leader of Iran was born in which year ?

The succession of Ali Khamenei, the current Supreme Leader of Iran, has been a taboo in Iran.  According to the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Supreme Leader is elected by two third majority of the Assembly of Experts members.  however, the Assembly has not elected any deputies since the deposition of Hussein-Ali Montazeri in 1987.  The Assembly elected a Supreme Leader once in the Iranian Supreme Leader election, 1989. <SEP>  Khamenei succeeded the first Supreme Leader, Ruhollah Khomeini, after Khomeini's death, being elected as the new Supreme Leader by the Assembly of Experts on 4 June 1989 at the age of 49.  His political career began after the Iranian Revolution, when the former President of Iran, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, then a confidant of Khomeini, brought Khamenei into Khomeini's inner circle.  Later on, the current President of Iran, Hassan Rouhani, then a member of Parliament, arranged for Khamenei to get his first major post in the provisional revolutionary government as deputy defense minister.  Khamenei then went to serve as the third President of Iran from 1981 to 1989 while becoming a close ally to Khomeini.  Eventually, after Khomeini had a fall off with then heir-apparent Hussein Ali Montazeri, Rafsanjani claimed that Khomeini had chosen Khamenei as his successor while the Assembly of Experts deliberated to elect the next Supreme Leader. Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khamenei (Persian: سید علی حسینی خامنه‌ای‎ ‎ ] ; born 17 July 1939) is a "marja" and the second and current Supreme Leader of Iran.  Khamenei is head of the servants of Astan Quds Razavi from April 14, 1979. <SEP> The Supreme Leader of Iran (Persian: رهبر معظم ایران‎ , "rahbar-e mo'azzam-e irān " ‎ ), also called the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution (رهبر معظم انقلاب اسلامی , "rahbar-e mo'azzam-e enghelāb-e eslāmi "), officially in Iran, called the Supreme Leadership Authority (مقام معظم رهبری , "maqām mo'azzam rahbari "), is the head of state and highest ranking political and religious authority in the Islamic Republic of Iran.  The armed forces, judicial system, state television, and other key governmental organizations are under the control of the Supreme Leader of Iran.  Khamenei also makes the final decisions on the amount of transparency in elections in Iran, and has fired and reinstated Presidential cabinet appointments.  The current longtime Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, has been issuing decrees and making the final decisions on economy, environment, foreign policy, education, national planning, and everything else in Iran.  Iran’s regional policy is directly controlled by the office of the Supreme Leader with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ task limited to protocol and ceremonial occasions.  All of Iran’s ambassadors to Arab countries, for example, are chosen by the Quds Corps, which directly reports to the Supreme Leader. <SEP> The Media of Iran are privately and publicly owned but is subject to censorship.  As of 2016, Iran had 178 newspapers, 83 magazines, 15,000 information sites and 2 million blogs.  A special court has authority to monitor the print media and may suspend publication or revoke the licenses of papers or journals that a jury finds guilty of publishing anti-religious material, slander, or information detrimental to the national interest.  The Iranian media is prohibited from criticizing the Islamic doctrines (as interpreted by the Iranian regime), former leader Ruhollah Khomeini, and current longtime leader Ali Khamenei.