Iranian dissidents

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.

Ruhollah Mostafavi Musavi Khomeini was an Iranian political revolutionary and Shia cleric who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989. He was the leader of the Iranian Revolution, which overthrew Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, ended the Pahlavi era, and transformed the country into an Islamic republic. As supreme leader, he implemented policies that came to be known as Khomeinism.

Iranian lawyer, human rights activist, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient

Iranian human rights activist (born 1972)

Reza Pahlavi is an Iranian political activist and the former Crown Prince of the Pahlavi dynasty of Iran. He is the eldest son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran, and his wife, Empress Farah. He lives in the United States as a dissident in exile.

Iranian writer, scholar of Islam, and political activist(1933-1977)

Iranian lawyer and human right activist

Iranian-born journalist

Iranian artist, film director, and photographer (born 1957)

cleric and Deputy Supreme Leader of Iran from 1985 to 1989

Iranian politician and Islamic thinker (1907–1995)

Iranian activist and broadcaster

Lawyer and women's rights activist

Minister of gender equality, Human rights and gender equality activist

human rights activist

Iranian Grand Ayatollah (1906-1986)

Iranian writer and activist

Kurdish political leader

Iranian journalist

Iranian entertainer (1936–1992)

British baroness

Iranian-born ex-Muslim atheist and secular activist, author, podcaster and vlogger, currently living in Vancouver, Canada.

Qajar princess

Iranian women's rights activist and politician

Iranian human rights activist

Iranian singer and guitarist

Iranian painter

Iranian-Canadian blogger

Iranian human rights activist

Iranian footballer

Activist & Iranian mother of a victim

Iranian politician (1951-2002)

Iranian journalist and filmmaker

Iranian journalist, jurist, Political activist

Persian jurist and politician and founder of the National Front

Iranian journalist

Iranian philosopher

Iranian academic

Iranian journalist

Iranian researcher and women's rights activist and LGBT rights activist

Leader of the ASMLA

Iranian activist

Iranian LGBT human rights activist

Iranian journalist

Iranian journalist and feminist activist

Southern Azerbaijani politician and activist. Member of the Tudeh Party and the Azerbaijan Democratic Party.

Iranian activist

Iranian poet

Poet, politician, attorney (1924–2017)

Iranian activist

Women's rights activist

Iranian activist

Iranian human rights activist

Iranian journalist

British-Iranian women rights activist who was held in solitary confinement in Evin Prison for protesting for equal access to sporting events in Iran

Iranian politician

Iranian activist

sister of Iranian Supreme leader Ali Khamenei

Iranian television presenter

Iranian Muslim reformer