Ruler · 1939 – present

Ali Khamenei

Lived 1939 – present; politician, poet, writer. President of Iran (Iran), 1981 – 1989.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the reign.

Lived: 1939 – 2026; 87 years
In office: 8 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Iran
Left it: killed; the ruler's own article

President of Iran

Iran · the 4th of 12 dated reigns · 1979 – 2026

Ruhollah Khomeini1979 – 1989

Abolhassan Banisadr1980 – 1981

Mohammad-Ali Rajai1981

Ali Khamenei1981 – 1989

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani1989 – 1997

Mohammad Khatami1997 – 2005

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad2005 – 2013

5 after

killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeleft alive by a regular roadstill in officeending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 1981 – 1989 · 8 years · came to it aged 42

Came to it: elected
Left it: killedread from the ruler's own article

In 1981, after the assassination of Mohammad-Ali Rajai, Khamenei was elected President of Iran by a landslide vote (97%) in the October 1981 Iranian presidential election in which only four candidates were approved by the Council of Guardians.

Khamenei was killed in an attack by the Israeli Air Force on his compound.

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