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Nation's Supreme Leader Is Running Out of Road
The Wall Street Journal
|January 17, 2026
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, the longest serving leader in the Middle East, faces an existential choice if he wants to preserve his rule and the theocracy that has governed Iran for nearly 50 years.
Women hold portraits of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei during recent funerals in Tehran.
This story is from the January 17, 2026 edition of The Wall Street Journal.
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