Consensuse in the Leadership Style of Imam Khomeini and Ayatollah Khamenei

The main purpose of this paper is to identify and analyze the consensus in political thought and practice of Imam Khomeini and Ayatollah Khamenei. Thus, the present article seeks to answer the central question of what is the consensus in the leadership style of Imam Khomeini and Ayatollah Khamenei? In order to answer the paper's questions, document analysis method is used that is of a variety of qualitative methods. With this method, available documents include books, articles and theses and documents reviewed. By examining the political thought of Imam Khomeini and Ayatollah Khamenei, components such as consultation, dialogue and reasoning and elections Free and equal have been considered by Imam Khomeini and Ayatollah Khamenei in the process of consensus building. It can be said that consensus on political thought and practice of Imam Khomeini (RA) and Ayatollah Khamenei has a special place. Imam Khomeini and Ayatollah Khamenei have repeatedly emphasized on consultation, dialogue and elections .Therefore, after examining his political thought, he has tried to provide evidence of consultation, dialogue and election in a consensus. By studying in the leadership style of Imam Khomeini (PBUH) and Ayatollah Khamenei, we can say that he was engaged in political, social, cultural, economic, military, and ... issues Consensus through consultation, dialogue and negotiation, as well as public participation (elections). They have thus modeled their leadership style in consensus.