Iran News | Exclusive: Inside The Notorious Prison Where Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Was Tortured

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has served as the second supreme leader of Iran since 1989. He is a powerful figure in the Middle East now and had issued a 'fatwa' or religious decree against US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, calling them "enemies of God". The religious decree followed a 12-day war that erupted on June 13, when Israel launched a bombing campaign in Iran that killed top military commanders and scientists linked to its nuclear programme. However, rising to power did not come easy to Khamenei. His life was filled with hardships and he was imprisoned for eight months - a period he described as the most difficult time of his life. The prison where he was held before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, under Shah Reza Pahlavi's regime, is now known as the Ebrat Museum.