Badri Hosseini Khamenei ( fa, بدری حسینی خامنه‌ای) is a sister of Ayatollah

Ali Khamenei Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khamenei ( fa, سید علی حسینی خامنه‌ای, ; born 19 April 1939) is a Twelver Shia ''marja and the second and current Supreme Leader of Iran, in office since 1989. He was previously the third president o ...

. In 1985, in the middle of the Iraq-Iran war, she illegally left Iran with her children and fled to

Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...

. She did so to join her husband, Sheik

Ali Tehrani Ali Tehrani (born Ali Moradkhani Arangeh, fa, علی مرادخانی ارنگه; 25 April 1926 – 19 October 2022), also known as Sheikh Ali Tehrani, was an Iranian Shia Islamic theologian and writer. He served as the representative of Khoras ...

, after a one-year separation. She admitted later that 20 of her friends were arrested and executed by the regime. In 1995, she returned to Iran, but remains alienated from

. In December 2022, amid

Mahsa Amini protests Civil unrest and protests against the government of Iran associated with the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini ( fa, مهسا امینی) began on 16 September 2022 and are ongoing as of December 2022. Amini had been arrested by the Guida ...

, she criticized her brother's rule and his "despotic caliphate". In an open letter, she also hoped to see him overthrown. "The regime of the Islamic Republic of

Khomeini Ruhollah Khomeini, Ayatollah Khomeini, Imam Khomeini ( , ; ; 17 May 1900 – 3 June 1989) was an Iranian political and religious leader who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989. He was the founder of ...

and Ali Khamenei has brought nothing but suffering and oppression to Iran and Iranians," she wrote.

Family

Badri Khamenei's husband was

(1926–2022), an Iranian Shia Islamic theologian and writer. He fled to Iraq in 1984. After returning to Iran, he spent 10 years in prison. Her daughter,

Farideh Moradkhani Farideh Moradkhani ( fa, فریده مرادخانی) is an Iranian engineer and human rights activist. She is a niece of Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei. Mordkhani has been detained multiple times, including a January 2022 arrest which sent ...

, the supreme leader’s niece, was arrested in November 2022 after going to a prosecutor’s office following a summons. Her son Mahmoud Moradkhani is based in France and was the one shared both his sister's video criticizing the regime and their mother's criticism of the regime in December 2022.

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