Iranain President Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khameneni, president of Iran from 1981 to 1989 and Supreme Leader of Iran since 1989, accompanied by Ali Sayad Shirazi, chief-of-staff of the Iranian forces during the Iran-Iraq war. Shirazi was assassinated in 1999 by the MKO - a socialist movement in Iran looking to overthrow the Islamist government. Tehran, IRAN