Iranian media have reported that Mansoureh Khojasteh Bagherzadeh, the 79-year-old wife of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has died from injuries sustained in the same strike that killed her husband.
According to Iranian officials, she was critically wounded during the attack and was rushed to hospital, where she remained under intensive medical care. Despite efforts by doctors, she succumbed to her injuries. Earlier reports had indicated that she was in a coma.
Authorities further claimed that other members of Khamenei’s family were also killed in the strike, including a daughter, a son-in-law, and a grandson.
Background
Born in 1947 in the religious city of Mashhad, Mansoureh Khojasteh Bagherzadeh belonged to a prominent and religious family. Her father was a well-known businessman, while her brother, Hassan Bagherzadeh, previously served as a deputy head of Iran’s state broadcasting organization.
She married Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in 1965, and the couple had six children — four sons and two daughters.
Despite being the spouse of Iran’s most powerful figure for decades, Bagherzadeh largely maintained a private life and rarely appeared at public events, keeping a low profile throughout her husband’s tenure as Supreme Leader.