While pro-establishment crowds celebrate Khamenei's appointment as his father's successor, others believe it signals no change to how Iran is ruled.
A secretive figure within the Islamic Republic, Mojtaba Khamenei was not seen publicly in the days after an Israeli airstrike targeting the supreme leader’s offices killed his 86-year-old father at the start of the war.
Move could lead to escalation of war as Donald Trump has already called Mojtaba Khamenei an ‘unacceptable’ choice. Plus, stormy space weather may be garbling messages from aliensGood morning.Mojtaba Khamenei, the second son of the late Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been chosen as his successor, as the war enters its 10th day and fresh…
Mojtaba Khamenei will succeed his father, Ali Khameni, as Iran's next supreme leader, Iranian state media reported Sunday.Why it matters: The move consolidates hardline control even as U.S. and Israeli strikes pound the country.The regime is at its most vulnerable state since the 1979 revolution, and critics have previously railed against Mojtaba's rise,…
Iran chose Mojtaba Khamenei, the hardline son of the assassinated Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as its new supreme leader, a choice quickly criticized by US President Donald Trump and one which signals the Islamic Republic won’t back down in a war now raging across the Middle East and causing turmoil in energy markets.
Iranian clerics elected the son of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as the next leader of the country, Iranian state media reported Sunday, as the U.S. and Israel continue to pummel the country with military strikes. Mojtaba Khamenei was elected by a body of 88 Iranian clerics in the wake of the death…
The 88-seat Assembly of Experts, a group of clerics, selects Iran’s supreme leader.
President Trump held a press conference on Monday, where he spoke about the new leader of Iran and did not rule out killing Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s son, Mojtaba Khamenei, who has been chosen to succeed the elder Khamenei. This comes amid reports that Mojtaba Khamenei may already be in the crosshairs of Israel, which has already threatened to kill whoever…
Iranian state media on Monday confirmed the selection of Mojtaba Khamenei, the 56-year-old son of slain Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to become the new Supreme Leader.
