Ali Khamenei

Ali Khamenei appears in roughly 6 monitored articles per day as of August 20, 2026. Mentions are down 77.9% week-over-week. The tone of that coverage averages -4.52 — negative.

Ali Hosseini Khamenei was an Iranian politician and Shia cleric who served as the second supreme leader of Iran from 1989 until his assassination in 2026. A member of the Khamenei family who held the title Grand Ayatollah, he previously served as the third president of Iran from 1981 to 1989. His 36-year tenure as supreme leader made him the longest-serving head of state in West Asia at the time of his death.

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Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Articles / day
6
mentioning this entity
Week over week
-77.9%
7-day mean vs prior
Tone
-4.52
negative

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Ali Khamenei mentions per day: 91 days, latest 6.00 on 2026-08-200.0012502500May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Ali Khamenei coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -4.52 on 2026-08-20+100-10May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Reader interest (Wikipedia)

Daily Wikipedia pageviews for Ali Khamenei: 89 days, latest 3948.00 on 2026-08-180.002500050000May 22Jun 6Jun 21Jul 6Jul 21Aug 5Aug 18

Daily human pageviews of the entity's English Wikipedia article (Wikimedia Analytics). Coverage above measures what the press SUPPLIES; this measures what readers DEMAND — divergence between the two is its own signal.

Mentions counted via a quoted-name query against the GDELT DOC API, aggregated to UTC days — see methodology. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).