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Mojtaba Khamenei named Iran’s new supreme leader

Motjaba Khemenei
Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran’s new supreme leader. © Press TV/

He will succeed his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in US-Israeli strikes.

Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been named as his successor as Iran’s supreme leader.

Ali Khamenei led Iran from 1989 until his death during the opening wave of US-Israeli strikes on Tehran on February 28.

Iran’s Assembly of Experts, tasked with vetting and selecting the supreme leader, announced on Monday that Mojtaba Khamenei had been chosen after “precise and extensive deliberations.”



The Assembly called on “the noble nation of Iran, especially the elites and intellectuals of the seminaries and universities, to pledge allegiance” to the new leader tasked with advancing the Islamic system of government that replaced the shah after the 1979 revolution.

Born in 1969, Mojtaba is the second of Ali Khamenei’s six children. As a young man, he fought as a volunteer during the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s and later studied religion in Qom, one of Iran’s holiest cities and a major centre of Shia theology. Mojtaba’s sister and several other relatives were killed in the same airstrike that killed his father.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), through its media arm Sepah, has pledged allegiance to the new supreme leader.

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25 COMMENTS

      • Better to have NO veneer of choice, right? Just cover your head or you get beaten, stoned and have your head sliced off.

        How DARE the STOOPID Orange man disrupt their peaceful society.

    • Cam Slater kicked me off his old site, thebfd for questioning his support for the slaughter in Gaza. He really is a Big Fat Dick, for that is what the acronym stands for.

      Their were millions upon millions of Iranians at rallys for their martyred leader, not celebrating his death. You would have to a moron to think Reza Pahlavi would not be pulled limb from limb if he sets foot in Iran.

      Cam Slater is a fool.

  1. yep, the lucky infidels in tehran can still keep going into the town-squares on saturday nights to get stoned

  2. He also owns 100’s of millions of pounds worth of blue chip real estate in London-istan. Just embezzled oil riches funded.

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