India, Jan. 10 -- Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is currently facing growing unrest within the country, as well as threats from outside, particularly from US President Donald Trump, amid massive protests that initially erupted over sharp rises in food prices but have since turned into anti-government demonstrations.

Protesters have been taking to the streets across Iran for 13 days. Their movement seeks an end to the clerical system that has been in place since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which ousted the Shah (king), Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, as popular cleric Ruhollah Khomeini took over as the Shia Muslim-majority country's first Supreme Leader.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, now 86, assumed the post in 1989 after Khomeini's deat...