Farzad Hedayati

"It has become very clear. Iran -this beautiful land- cannot stay as it is now. Thus, I call upon you, men of tradition and men of progress, come to my mosque, this holy house of God. Come, and let us find enlightenment together." 
-Farzad Hedayati 
Farzad Hedayati, also known by his moniker The Enlightened One, was a 21st century scholar, imam, and revolutionary who served as ayatollah and supreme leader of Iran from 2032 to 2036, and as head of the Transition Council from 2036 to 2037. He is widely considered to be the father of modern Iran, and has been subject to widespread praise and reverence by the Iranian people, and the World. 
Farzad was once a regular imam. He was a scholar of Shi'a Islam, and one of the many who followed and promoted the strict teachings of the Islamic Republic of Iran. When the Azadi Revolution broke out against the regime in 2051, he vehemently preached against them. 
Thus is came to a shock to him when his daughter Samirah announced she would join the protestors. Enraged, he banished her, and demanded she never return. However, the love he held for her broke his heart, and when he received the news that she was arrested and sent to be put on trial, he intervened in her favor, and bribed her out of jail. He implored his daughter to return home; however, Samirah declined. Not wanting to lose her father a second time, she instead demanded he join her. 
Farzad complied with his daughter's wishes, but instead of joining the protest, he instead called out to the people of Bandar e'Abbas, to join him in prayer. Feeling conflicted himself, he called for a gathering of the people, summoning both the regime-defending traditionalists and the liberal protestors to his mosque. There, he presided over what would evolve become the Enlightened Congress of Bandar e'Abbas. The debates held in the mosque drew national attention, and spread across the city. Over the course of five months, the city would be engulfed in a heated debate over the future of Iran. 
Farzad Hedayati -having himself become swayed by the vehemence of the debaters- developed a deep love for oration and freedom of speech, and secretly began to despise the regime he had once protected. In the sixth month of debate, Hedayati convened the congress once more, this time to draft what would become the Enlightened Constitution. Having gained an immensely respected reputation for impartiality and wisdom, the congress demanded he present the article to the parliament, and upon the urging of his daughter, he complied. 
What followed would become known as the March on Tehran, where Hedayati would leave Bandar e'Abbas, and walk all the way north to the capital, gathering supporters along the way. When he arrived in Tehran, he had gathered a crowd of over a million people, plus all his supporters across Iran. Together, he and his followers demanded the end of the Islamic Republic, and overwhelmed, the government complied. 
Farzad Hedayati was thus installed as Supreme Leader, and granted the title of Ayatollah. In that position, he then installed his new constitution, and oversaw Iran's transition to democracy. After four years in power, he would then strip his position of all power, and cede it to the House of Pahlavi to rule as powerless constitutional monarchs, while he would slip to the background as head of the Transition Council. Once he believed his work was complete, he retired to Bandar e'Abbas, where he would live out his final days. 
The teachings of Hedayati are still taught in Iranian schools today, and many of his reforms were copied around the globe for their temperance between progress and tradition. He is credited not only with establishing Iranian democracy, but also with the founding of the Imperial Legion, Iran's mage agency, and laying the groundwork for Iran's booming supernatural tech industry.