# Ali Khamenei is sworn in as president of Iran

Date: 1981

## The fact

On 13 October 1981 [Ali Khamenei](/people/ali-khamenei) was sworn in as president of Iran after Mohammad-Ali Rajai was killed in a bombing.

## Context

Khomeini was Leader and commander-in-chief. The Iran–Iraq war was already underway. Neighbouring UN 598 is 1988.

4 June 1989 Leadership is later. UN 598 is 1988. The 1988 prison executions sit on the same presidency, stored separately.

The Supreme Leader of Iran is commander-in-chief and the highest constitutional authority. He does not write a US presidential strike order, an IAEA Board resolution, or a Hamas military plan. Presidents, the IRGC, and the Guardian Council implement and share specific files.

## Evidence and sources

Office of the Supreme Leader of Iran carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [social cohesion](/drivers/social-cohesion): a completed presidential succession after an assassination is a dated continuity instrument inside a revolutionary system.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 13 October 1981 presidential oath, independently reported.

Not established: that the office was a liberal presidency, or a unique later war coefficient from the ceremony.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Khomeini was Leader. He took the oath.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Ali Khamenei is sworn in as president of Iran, not a later speech about Ali Khamenei is sworn in as president of Iran.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Ali Khamenei is sworn in as president of Iran on 1981-10-13 is not a licence to treat every later Office of the Supreme Leader of Iran communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Ali Khamenei is sworn in as president of Iran into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to Voters in a constrained field elected. Khomeini was Leader. He took the oath. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Ali Khamenei: https://factrail.ai/people/ali-khamenei

## Drivers

- Social Cohesion: https://factrail.ai/drivers/social-cohesion

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-khamenei-1981-idUSKCN0Q70W0
- https://english.khamenei.ir/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ir-president-1981