Who is Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran’s new supreme leader?

Written by on March 9, 2026

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s son Mojtaba was chosen ⁠by Iran’s Assembly of Experts to succeed his late father as supreme leader, in a sign that hardliners were still firmly in charge.
The clerical body named the 56-year-old mid-ranking cleric, who has survived the US-Israeli air war on Iran, as successor more than a week after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in an air strike, Iranian media reported.
A member of the council, Ayatollah Mohsen Heidari Alekasir, said in a video on Sunday that a…

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