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Workers put the final touches on a mural of Iran’s long-serving supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Tehran’s Revolution Square in February 2012. Majid Saeedi/Getty Images
A younger Khamenei, then president, donned a military uniform in 1981. AP/File
Khamenei listened to a speaker in northeastern Iran in October. Office of the Supreme Leader/AP
Iranian worshipers, holding posters of the supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei and late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, chanted slogans against the US and Israel in a pro-Palestinian rally in Tehran in November. Vahid Salemi/AP
A Lebanese man stands in a bunker at a Hezbollah war museum in southern Lebanon with posters of the ayatollahs on the wall – evidence of Iran’s influence in the region. Hussein Malla/AP/File
Khamenei cast his ballot in Iran’s disputed 2009 election. Ami Khulousi/Iranian Students News Agency/AP/File
Khamenei saluted during military maneuvers in 2004. AP/File
A Green Movement protester showed her painted palm in support of defeated reformist Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi during a rally against the 2009 election results. Fars News/Reuters
Iranian seminary students hold posters of Khamenei at a demonstration of clerics to protest a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad, in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012. Vahid Salemi/AP
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/20
In Pictures: Weather extremes 2013
In Pictures: The Israeli separation barrier: A West Bank wall
In Pictures: Derby Day devotees, Kenyan style
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/16
In Pictures: Dazzle like Beckham
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/15
In Pictures: Duchess Kate's royal baby bump
Controversial candidates like former President Rafsanjani could draw high voter turnout, but may challenge the supreme leader's ability to control the process of replacing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Just weeks before Iran’s crucial presidential vote, Iran’s supreme leader is facing a new and unexpected dilemma that could derail his plans to restore regime legitimacy and bury the ghosts of Iran’s violent 2009 election.
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