a href"https:cms.hoover.orgresearchkhamenei-according-beijing-regime-revolution-and-making-safe-friend" hreflang"en"Khamenei According to Beijing: Regime, Revolution, and the Making of a Safe “Friend”a

Two months after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran in February 2026, Iran’s cultural office in Beijing promoted an uncommon afterlife for the late supreme leader: his Chinese memoir.