Assassinated heads of state in Asia

Ali Hosseini Khamenei was an Iranian politician and Shia cleric who served as the second supreme leader of Iran from 1989 until his assassination in the 2026 Iran war. A member of the Khamenei family, he previously served as the third president of Iran from 1981 to 1989. He held the title Grand Ayatollah, and his tenure as supreme leader, spanning 36 years and six months, made him the longest-serving head of state in West Asia at the time of his death.

Ruler of Transjordan and Jordan from 1921 to 1951

Shah of Qajar Iran from 1848 to 1896

1st General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan

Afghan communist revolutionary, politician and teacher (1929–1979)

king of Nepal (1945–2001)

King of Iraq from 4 April 1939 until 1958

1st-century BC king of Galatia