Shia 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.

Ebrahim Raisolsadati, better known as Ebrahim Raisi, was an Iranian cleric and politician who served as the eighth president of Iran from 2021 until his death in a helicopter crash in 2024. A protégé of supreme leader Ali Khamenei and a Principlist, Raisi was the second and most recent Iranian president to die in office after Mohammad-Ali Rajai.

Leader of Hezbollah (1960-2024)

Iranian military officer (1957–2020)

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

Iranian grand ayatollah

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 politician (1919-1979)

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

Iraqi Shia cleric, philosopher, and the ideological founder of the Islamic Dawa Party (1935-1980)(55 yrs)

one of the leaders of Hezbollah (1961/1962–2024), Specially Designated Global Terrorist from 2013

Iranian cleric and philosopher

one of the leaders of Hezbollah (1962–2024), Specially Designated Global Terrorist from 2019

Iranian cleric

Iranian politician

Iranian political activist (born 1948)

Iranian Shi'a theologian (1843–1909)

Iranian cleric and executor (1926–2003)

Iranian cleric (1924–1956)

Iranian Ayatollah (1919–2022)

Iranian Islamic philosopher and theologian

Iranian cleric (1925–2020)

Iranian grand ayatollah (1931–2007)

Iranian Ayatollah

member of parliament

Hezbollah militant

Iranian cleric

Iranian grand ayatollah (1921-2013)

Iranian grand ayatollah

Iranian writer and cleric

Iranian cleric

Iranian cleric lecturer

Iranian ayatollah

Iraqi Grand Ayatollah

Iranian Grand Ayatollah

Iranian orator

Iranian Grand Ayatollah

Iranian grand ayatollah

Iranian grand ayatollah (1928–2013)

Iranian Grand Ayatollah

Islamic Scholar، Educator & Philosopher

Iranian cleric (1948–2024)

Iranian assassin (1924-1955)

Bahraini Islamist

Iranian cleric (1933–2013)

Iranian ayatollah

Iranian ayatollah

Iranian grand ayatollah (1931-2014)

Iraqi grand ayatollah

Iranian Shi'a cleric

Kuwaiti Twelver Shia imam and religious & political activist

Iranian grand ayatollah (1924-2011)

Pakistani politician (1946-1988)

Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja

political Islam in the Twelver Shi'a branch of Islam