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.
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