Most significant positive evidence
Limited shared credit for state education, health and national development.
Person
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Theocratic authority, repression, executions, torture, gender persecution and restrictions on fundamental freedoms.
This is a contemporary assessment current to 26 June 2026. It must be revised as later conduct and evidence become available.
Ethical assessment categories
Current published result
Overall ethical score
-92.50
Reasoned summary
A near-extreme negative record reflecting decades of concentrated authority over a coercive theocratic state.
This assessment presents six separate ethical dimensions rather than one overall moral score. Each result must be read with its evidence, plausible range, confidence, disputes, exclusions, severe-harm findings and sources.
Most significant negative evidence
Systematic repression, gender persecution, executions, torture and violent suppression dominate the record.
Read the full Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ethical assessment, evidence and sources
Six-dimensional ethical profile
The overall figure is the equal-weight average of the applicable dimensions. It does not replace the separate scores, evidence or uncertainty.
- Personal moral conduct
- -90.00
- Rights and dignity
- -96.67
- Nonviolence and harm
- -95.00
- Stewardship of power
- -90.00
- Wisdom and truthfulness
- -90.00
- Consequential legacy
- -93.33
- Severe-harm record
- No separate finding recorded
Assessment history
Ethical assessment: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (1989–2026)
1989–2026 · Published assessment · reviewed June 26, 2026
Result: Six-dimensional ethical profile