Leaders

Masoud Pezeshkian

Who leads Iran? Masoud Pezeshkian, President. Profile, record and power assessment from the Magna Bureau leader index.

President — Iran

Record & power

Record score	63
Power score	66

Country momentum -2 — Quarterly momentum: the Bureau's read on the country's trajectory over the last quarter, from −10 (deteriorating fast) to +10 (accelerating).

Why it matters

The reformist president steering a sanctioned theocracy through war and economic collapse.
Kept the state functioning through devastating war and a closed Strait of Hormuz.
The 25-year deals with Russia and China are the lifeline; the regional Axis weakened but not broken.
The debit: UN investigators found crimes against humanity in the January 2026 protest crackdown; inflation at 69.9%.

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Across the Bureau

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