Iranian Shia clerics

President of Iran from 2013 to 2021

President of Iran from 1997 to 2005

Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei is an Iranian cleric and politician who has served as the third supreme leader of Iran since 2026. A member of the Khamenei family and the second son of second supreme leader Ali Khamenei, he previously served as Vakil of the Supreme Leader during his father's rule from 2008 to 2026.

Alireza Arafi is an Iranian Shia cleric and politician who has served as a member of the Guardian Council since 2019, and a member of the Assembly of Experts since 2022.

Iranian cleric

17th-century Iranian Shia philosopher and theologian

Iranian reformist politician, democracy activist, mojtahed, and chairman of the National Trust Party

Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i is an Iranian politician and Islamic jurist who has served as the 8th chief justice of Iran since 2021. he also has previously headed the Iranian minister of intelligence from 2005 to July 2009, when he was abruptly dismissed. He also held a number of other governmental posts since 1984.

Iranian academic (1890–1946)

Iranian cleric (1933-1981)

Iranian Shia cleric, philosopher, jurist and mystic

Lebanese Shiite jurist and political activist

Iranian-Iraqi Islamic scholar

Iranian diplomat

successor of Shaykh Ahmad al-Ahsa'i, leader of the Shaykhí movement

Iranian cleric (1946–2022)

Iranian cleric (born 1972)

Iranian politician (1880–1920)

Iranian Shi'a theologian (1843–1909)

Iranian cleric (1924–1956)

Iranian politician

Mostafa Hosseini Khamenei is an Iranian Shia cleric. A member of the Khamenei family, he is the eldest son of the second Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei, and the elder brother of the third and current supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei.

Iranian diplomat and politician (1878–1970)

Iranian cleric (1947–2021)

Iranian cleric

Prime Minister of Iran (1870-1937)

Iranian Shi'a jurist and political activist (1839–1911)

Iranian cleric and academic

Iranian politician

Iranian cleric

Iranian cleric

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 Islamic scholar (1860–1936)

Iranian cleric and politician

Iranian cleric

Iranian cleric leader

Iranian cleric and politician

Iranian cleric

Iranian historian

Iranian politician

Iranian scholar and theologian

Iranian ayatollah (1876-1970)

Iranian cleric lecturer

Persian Shi'a theologian (1840–1910)

Masoud Hosseini Khamenei, also known as Mohsen Khamenei, is an Iranian Twelver Shia cleric. A member of the Khamenei family, he is the third son of the second Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei, and the younger brother of the third and current supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei.

Iranian Shia Marja' and politician (1840–1912)

Iranian Grand Ayatollah (1907–1976)

former head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Intelligence service

one of the contemporary Islamic scholars

Iranian scientist

Iranian ayatollah (1887–1971)

Iranian actor and poet (1956–2004)

Iranian writer, poet and religious servant

writer

Iranian politician

Iranian cleric (1927–1981)

Iranian Twelver Shia cleric

Iranian philosopher

Iranian judge

Iranian religious servant