Who is Iran's new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei? In what has been described as a sign that hardliners are still firmly in charge in Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's son Mojtaba has been chosen to succeed his late father as supreme leader. The Assembly of Experts clerical body named the 56-year-old mid-ranking cleric, who has survived the US-Israeli strikes on Iran, as successor more than a week after the ayatollah was killed in an air strike, Iranian media reported. A member of the council, Ayatollah Mohsen Heidari Alekasir, said in a video on Sunday, local time, that a candidate had been sele
Who is Iran's new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei? In what has been described as a sign that hardliners are still firmly in charge in Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's son Mojtaba has been chosen to succeed his late father as supreme leader. The Assembly of Experts clerical body named the 56-year-old mid-ranking cleric, who has survived the US-Israeli strikes on Iran, as successor more than a week after the ayatollah was killed in an air strike, Iranian media reported. A member of the council, Ayatollah Mohsen Heidari Alekasir, said in a video on Sunday, local time, that a candidate had been sele