Iranian Islamists

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 military officer (1957–2020)

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

Iranian politician (1919-1979)

Iranian cleric, one of the leading figures of the 1979 Iranian Revolution (1928–1981)

Iranian ayatollah

Iranian political activist (born 1948)

Iranian cleric

Iranian Shi'a theologian (1843–1909)

Iranian cleric and executor (1926–2003)

Iranian Ayatollah (1919–2022)

Iranian cleric (1924–1956)

Iranian Islamic philosopher and theologian

Iranian cleric (1925–2020)

Norwegian-Iranian murderer and terrorist, convicted for the 2022 Oslo mass shooting

Iranian Ayatollah

Javad Hosseini Khamenei was an Iranian Shia cleric. A member of the Khamenei family, he was the father of Iran's second supreme leader, Ali Khamenei and grandfather of Iran's third and current supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei.

Iranian jurist

Iranian grand ayatollah (1921-2013)

Iranian cleric

Persian Shi'a theologian (1840–1910)

Iranian grand ayatollah

Iranian Grand Ayatollah

Iranian Grand Ayatollah

Iranian ayatollah

Iranian grand ayatollah (1928–2013)

Iranian assassin (1924-1955)

Iranian cleric (1933–2013)

Iranian grand ayatollah

a Revolution during the Constitutionalization attempts in Iran in 1906

Iranian Grand Ayatollah

Iranian cleric (1948–2024)

Iranian cleric

Iranian grand ayatollah (1924-2011)

Iranian ayatollah

political Islam in the Twelver Shi'a branch of Islam

Iranian Ayatollah

Iranian grand ayatollah (1931-2014)

Iranian Shi'a cleric

Head of Security of the Iranian Supreme Leader's office

Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja

Iranian religious servant

Iranian ayatollah