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…
Iran’s Assembly of Experts names Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as the country’s new supreme leader, state media reported on Sunday, following the opening strike in the nine-day U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, was appointed by a committee of senior Shiite clerics after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the highest…
Tehran has appointed a new supreme leader, Mojataba Khamenei, the son of the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed on the first day of the US-Israeli strikes on Iran. Moments after Mojataba was announced as successor, Iran unleashed a heavy barrage of missile and drone attacks directed at oil facilities, in what Arab officials tell NBC is its strategy to…
Iran has selected Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his father Ali Khamenei as Iran’s supreme leader. The elder Khamenei was assassinated in a joint U.S.-Israeli airstrike on February 28. Iran selected the “hard-liner” Mojtaba Khamenei in defiance of President Trump, who has repeatedly claimed he can choose Iran’s next leader. His selection also contradicts the…
Bloomberg Daybreak Europe is your essential morning viewing to stay ahead. Live from London, we set the agenda for your day, catching you up with overnight markets news from the US and Asia. On today's show, oil spiked toward $120 a barrel as more major Middle East producers curbed production, the Strait of Hormuz remained all but closed and the US…
Mojtaba Khamenei was named Iran's new supreme leader following the death of his father in the U.S.-Israeli strikes.
President Trump on Sunday said he was “not happy” with Iran’s new supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei. Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was selected by a group of 88 Iranian clerics known as the Assembly of Experts on Sunday. His father and wife were killed in U.S. and Israeli strikes on Tehran…
Well, that didn't take long. Mojtaba Khamenei has risen to the appointment of Iran Supreme Leader, as the country's national television news service confirmed Monday, however it has since emerged the man following his father into the post has been wounded in an unspecified incident at a time and place unknown. The post Iran Confirms New Supreme Leader…
Iran issued a chilling pledge of allegiance to its new supreme leader — a personalized missile — as the Islamic Republic unleashed a fresh barrage of drone and missile attacks Monday. “At your service, Sayyid Mojtaba,” the message scribed on the side of the projectile says. Iran showed off a missile containing a chilling message...
