World reacts to appointment of Mojtaba Khamenei as Iran’s supreme leader New supreme leader receives support from Oman, Iraq, Yemen’s Houthis, while the US and Israel make threats. Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has never held a formal position in government, but his appointment as his late father’s successor amid the US-Israeli war on his country was not unexpected. Iran’s Assembly of Experts appointed the 56-year-old mid-ranking religious scholar to the position on Sunday, just over a week after his late father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed in United States-Israeli strikes.
World reacts to appointment of Mojtaba Khamenei as Iran’s supreme leader New supreme leader receives support from Oman, Iraq, Yemen’s Houthis, while the US and Israel make threats. Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has never held a formal position in government, but his appointment as his late father’s successor amid the US-Israeli war on his country was not unexpected. Iran’s Assembly of Experts appointed the 56-year-old mid-ranking religious scholar to the position on Sunday, just over a week after his late father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed in United States-Israeli strikes.