1. Bashar al-Assad, president of Syria
2. Hosni Mubarak, president of Egypt
3. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, president of Iran
4. Golda Meir, prime minister of Israel
5. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, prime minister and president of Turkey
6. Ashraf Ghani, president of Afghanistan
7. Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, president of Turkmenistan
8. Muammar al-Qaddafi, leader of Libya