Seyyed Masoud Khamenei
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Biography
Seyyed Masoud Hosseini Khamenei (Persian: سید مسعود حسینی خامنهای), commonly known as "Seyyed Masoud Khamenei" (and also known as "Seyyed Mohsen Khamenei" [Persian: سید محسن خامنهای]) is an Iranian Twelver Shia cleric who is the third son of Iran’s supreme leader, Seyyed Ali Khamenei; and is the brother of Seyyed Mostafa, Seyyed Mojtaba and Seyyed Meitham. This Iranian cleric who is also called with the title of “Hujjatul-Islam”, is the husband of Sadiq-Kharazi’s sister; likewise, he is the son-in-law of Seyyed Mohsen Kharazi (Tehran’s representative in the assembly of experts). Seyyed Masoud is studying and teaching in the seminary of Qom; and is a member in Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom (Persian: جامعه مدرسین حوزه علمیه قم).
Seyyed Masoud doesn’t have governmental/non-governmental or formal position; moreover, his father (Seyyed Ali Khamenei) has prohibited his son(s) to accept governmental (and etc.) positions, too. According to Mehr News Agency: Seyyed Masoud has the most attention --between Iran’s supreme leader’s sons-- in collecting the memoirs of his father and likewise in running the office of the preservation and publication of Iran's supreme leader works.
Ancestors
The family (ancestors) of Seyyed Masoud Khamenei are among the Iranian Sayyid families who are from Hosseini Sayyid, and their lineage is connected to the fourth Imam of Shia Islam, Ali ibn Husayn Zayn al-Abidin (Persian/Arabic: علی بن حسین، زین العابدین) (known as "Imam Sajjad") -- according to "Khamenei family tree".