swap_horiz Ali Khamenei Alternatives

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Paul Kagame

President of Rwanda since 2000, credited with rebuilding the country after the 1994 genocide but widely criticized for a...

Modern President Rwanda Authoritarian

5.5 Mediocre

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Hassan Rouhani

Hassan Rouhani is an Iranian politician who served as the seventh president of Iran from 2013 to 2021, notable for negot...

Modern President Iran Moderate

4.5 Poor

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Daniel Ortega

Daniel Ortega is a Nicaraguan politician who has served as President since 2007, leading the Sandinista National Liberat...

Modern President Nicaragua Authoritarian

3.5 Poor

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Nursultan Nazarbayev

Nursultan Nazarbayev served as President of Kazakhstan from 1990 to 2019, notable for being the first leader of the nati...

20TH Century President Kazakhstan Post Soviet

3.5 Poor

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Mohammed bin Salman

Mohammed bin Salman is the Crown Prince and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia, serving as the country's de facto ruler sinc...

Modern Reform Saudi Arabia Authoritarian

3.5 Poor

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Hosni Mubarak

Hosni Mubarak was an Egyptian military officer and politician who served as the fourth president of Egypt from 1981 to 2...

Military 20TH Century President Egypt

3.0 Poor

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Abdel Fattah el-Sisi

Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is an Egyptian politician and retired military officer serving as the sixth president of Egypt sinc...

Military Modern President Egypt

3.0 Poor

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Alberto Fujimori

Alberto Fujimori is a Peruvian politician who served as President from 1990 to 2000, later convicted of human rights abu...

20TH Century President Peru Authoritarian

3.0 Poor

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Ilham Aliyev

Ilham Aliyev has served as President of Azerbaijan since 2003, notable for succeeding his father and leading the country...

Modern President Dynastic Azerbaijan

3.0 Poor

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Emmerson Mnangagwa

President of Zimbabwe since November 2017, when he took power after Robert Mugabe's removal in a military-backed coup, h...

Modern President Zimbabwe Authoritarian

3.0 Poor

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Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin is a Russian politician who has served as the President or Prime Minister of Russia continuously since 19...

Russia Modern President Former Kgb

2.5 Poor

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Ayatollah Khomeini

Ayatollah Khomeini was an Iranian religious leader and politician who founded the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979 follo...

20TH Century Revolutionary Iran Supreme Leader

2.5 Poor

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Hun Sen

Prime Minister of Cambodia from 1985 to 2023, one of the world's longest-serving leaders, who stepped down to transfer p...

Modern Cpp Cambodia Prime Minister

2.5 Poor

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Nicolás Maduro

Nicolás Maduro is a Venezuelan politician serving as president of Venezuela since 2013, whose tenure has overseen a seve...

Modern President Venezuela Socialist

2.0 Poor

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Muammar Gaddafi

Muammar Gaddafi was a Libyan revolutionary and politician who seized power in a 1969 coup, ruling Libya as its absolute...

20TH Century Pan Arab Libya Authoritarian

2.0 Poor

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Ebrahim Raisi

Ebrahim Raisi was an Iranian conservative politician who served as the eighth president of Iran from 2021 until his deat...

Modern President Iran Hardliner

2.0 Poor

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Alexander Lukashenko

Alexander Lukashenko has served as President of Belarus since 1994, notable for maintaining an authoritarian regime ofte...

Modern President Belarus Authoritarian

2.0 Poor

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Islam Karimov

Islam Karimov served as the first President of Uzbekistan from 1990 until his death in 2016, notable for maintaining a h...

20TH Century President Uzbekistan Post Soviet

2.0 Poor

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Kim Il-sung

Kim Il-sung was a communist politician who founded North Korea in 1948 and ruled it as its Supreme Leader until his deat...

20TH Century Founder North Korea Communist

1.5 Poor

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Kim Jong-il

Kim Jong-il was the Supreme Leader of North Korea from 1994 to 2011, succeeding his father Kim Il-sung and maintaining t...

20TH Century North Korea Communist Dictator

1.0 Poor