Naeimeh Doostdar
Journalist and Iran analyst
Naeimeh Doostdar is a journalist and social analyst.
Journalist and Iran analyst
Naeimeh Doostdar is a journalist and social analyst.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed in Saturday’s airstrikes, marking the end of more than three decades at the helm of the Islamic Republic and closing a chapter in Iran’s modern history that many Iranians had long hoped to see concluded.

Half a century of rule built on clerical authority has secularized Iran, available data suggests, with most still believing in God but not in the theocracy.
