Theocratic and Religious-Political Leaders

A person who holds or held a country's supreme political authority through religious or juristic qualification and selection rather than election, hereditary succession, coup or the leadership of a founding revolutionary movement. This bucket is distinct from Revolutionary and Independence Leaders: Ruhollah Khomeini, who led the 1979 revolution that created Iran's theocracy, is filed under Revolutionary and Independence Leaders for that founding act, while a successor who inherited or was selected into the same kind of office without leading its founding revolution is filed here instead. Belongs here: Mojtaba Khamenei, filed here on the same religious authority selection reasoning as Iran's Supreme Leadership office, a disclosed, lower confidence placement since this wave did not independently reconfirm his exact current standing within that office; a successor should confirm and correct if needed. Afghanistan's Taliban leadership, Hibatullah Akhundzada and Hasan Akhund, is filed here too, its authority resting on the movement's internal religious hierarchy rather than an election. Does not belong here: an elected president who is constitutionally subordinate to a religious supreme leader, such as Iran's Masoud Pezeshkian, filed under Heads of State and Government instead, because this tree classifies a person's own path to office rather than the office's constitutional weight, a different axis than the one this atlas's government tree uses for the administrations themselves.