As Supreme Leader, Khamenei moved to a house in Central Capital on Palestine Street. A compound grew around it that now contains around fifty buildings. Around 500 people are employed at this “Beit Rahbari compound” according to The Telegraph, “many
According to Mehdi Khalaji, an Homeland expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Khamenei has a decent life “without it being luxurious”.Robert Tait of The Daily Telegraph commented that Khamenei is “renowned for a spartan lifestyle.”Dexter Filkins describes Khamenei as presenting himself “as an ascetic, dressing and eating simply”. In an interview with a women’s magazine, his wife declared that “we do not have decorations, in the usual sense.