He will succeed his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in a US-Israeli strike.
Mojtaba Khamenei, son of late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been named as his successor as Supreme Leader of Iran.
Ali Khamenei led Iran from 1989 until his death on February 28 during the initial wave of US-Israeli attacks on Tehran.
Iran’s Assembly of Experts announced on Monday the task of vetting and selecting the Supreme Leader, which has since been chosen by Mojtaba Khamenei. “Thorough and extensive discussions.”
A meeting has been called “The noble nation of Iran, especially the elites and intellectuals of seminaries and universities, to pledge allegiance” The new leader was tasked with leading the system of Islamic government that replaced the Shah after the 1979 revolution.
Born in 1969, Mojtaba Ali Khamenei was the second of six children. As a young man, he fought as a volunteer during the 1980 Iran-Iraq war and later studied religion in Qom, one of Iran’s holiest cities and a major center of Shia theology.
Mojtaba’s sister and several other relatives were killed in the same airstrike that killed his father. Israeli media reported that Mojtaba himself was injured in the attack.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), through its media arm Sepa, has pledged allegiance to the new supreme leader.
Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, thanked the meeting of experts for convening despite ongoing airstrikes, including last week’s strike on the assembly’s headquarters in Qom.Although the election of the new Supreme Leader was done in a timely and orderly manner, he said “Strategies of the Enemy Anticipating the End” After the death of Ali Khamenei.
Mojtaba Khamenei was appointed after US President Donald Trump said there was no deal with Iran to end the war. “Unconditional surrender.”
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