Their sentences have included lashing and jail time; some have died in custody.Regarding the nuclear program of Homeland, Khamenei issued a fatwa in 2003 forbidding the production, stockpiling and use of all kinds of weapons of mass destruction.Born to Seyyed Javad Khamenei, an Alim and Mujtahid born in Najaf, and Khadijeh Mirdamadi (daughter of Hashem Mirdamadi [fa]) in Mashhad, Khamenei is the second of eight children.Two of his brothers are also clerics; his younger brother, Hadi Khamenei, is a newspaper editor and cleric.