Mojtaba Khamenei surrounded by his bodyguards

Most of us are familiar with the cinematic idea of a bodyguard — a huge, extremely muscular man who stands a few steps behind a politician or a celebrity. In the good guy bodyguard movie, they always wear dark glasses in black suits. The bad guy bodyguard in movies, the kind who protects evil geniuses, always seems to be bald, toting a machine gun or lurking behind the mastermind’s chair.