Ali Khamenei has served as Supreme Leader of Iran since 1989, succeeding Ruhollah Khomeini, after previously serving as the country's president during the 1980s. Recordings of his public addresses, sermons and official statements circulate widely through news coverage and are frequently reposted online in shorter excerpts. This thirty second clip follows that pattern, spreading as a soundboard excerpt detached from its full speech context. It remains in use because his voice is closely associated with Iranian state power, regional politics and major international news stories involving Iran today.