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Report: Khamenei’s son chosen as Iran’s new supreme leader

Assembly of Experts' selection of Mojtaba Khamenei reportedly made under pressure from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Iran’s Assembly of Experts has selected Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as the next leader of the Islamic Republic, according to a report Tuesday by Iran International, which cited sources familiar with the decision and said the vote was held under pressure from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Senior Israeli officials said they assess that the Assembly is expected to formally announce Mojtaba Khamenei as successor in the coming hours.

The reported decision comes after Iranian media earlier said members of the 88-member Assembly of Experts were not inside the building in Qom that Israel struck earlier Tuesday and would soon declare a replacement for the supreme leader, who was killed at the outset of Operation Roaring Lion.

According to Iran International’s correspondent, the selection of Mojtaba Khamenei was made “under pressure from the Revolutionary Guards.”

Mojtaba Khamenei, the supreme leader’s second son, is considered aligned with Iran’s hardline conservative camp, similar to his father. He has publicly supported suppressing regime opponents inside Iran and backing an assertive policy toward external enemies.

A mid-ranking cleric who teaches Shiite theology at a seminary in Qom, Iran’s religious center, Mojtaba has never held a formal government position but is widely believed to wield considerable influence behind the scenes. He is known to have cultivated close ties with the Revolutionary Guard.

Analysts outside Iran have previously described him as a “gatekeeper” within his father’s inner circle. In 2019, the United States imposed sanctions on Mojtaba Khamenei, saying that although he did not hold an official title, he effectively “represented” the supreme leader.

Despite his name repeatedly surfacing over the years as a possible successor, Mojtaba has not been widely viewed as a leading candidate.

Observers have noted that elevating him could be perceived as a hereditary transfer of power — echoing the monarchy overthrown in the 1979 Islamic Revolution — and that he is not considered a sufficiently senior cleric by traditional standards for the post.

Israeli officials have previously said Mojtaba does not appear to hold a prominent public profile and suggested Iranian authorities have sought to keep him “out of sight.”

Under Iran’s constitution, the supreme leader is chosen by the Assembly of Experts, whose members are elected but must first be approved by the Guardian Council, a body appointed directly or indirectly by the supreme leader.

The position holds ultimate authority over the military, judiciary and key state institutions.
There was no immediate confirmation from Iranian state media of Mojtaba Khamenei’s reported selection.

Ayatollah Khamenei’s son is frontrunner to succeed dad as Iran’s new supreme leader

The son of Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is the frontrunner to replace him as supreme leader, according to reports.

Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, is currently favored to take control of Iran by the country’s Assembly of Experts, a powerful body of clerics that makes the decision, the New York Times reported while citing sources close to the deliberations.

Other outlets – including Israeli media and Iranian opposition channels – were reporting early Tuesday that Mojtaba had already been selected, though Iranian state media has not confirmed anything.

The report was widely being picked up by Israeli media but had not been confirmed by Iranian state mouthpieces.

Mojtaba was at first believed to have been among the 40 top Iranian aides killed during the Saturday strike that took out Iran’s highest-ranking cleric.

Mojtaba was at first believed to have been among the 40 top Iranian aides killed during the Saturday strike that took out Tehran’s highest-ranking cleric, his despotic 86-year-old father who ruled over Iran with an iron grip for decades.

But reports of his name being floated within leadership succession discussions indicate he is alive and well – and could be well on the way to furthering his father’s cause of severely anti-western sentiments.

Motjaba — the ayatollah’s second-oldest son — has been known for his staunch adherence to his father’s hardline conservatism and has close ties to Iran’s notoriously brutal Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps military body, according to CNN.

HacheNoire:
Trump and Netanyahu should cease opportunity and beg this dude. With the way I am looking dudes eyes, he is not a talker but doer, which make up the set of most deadly people on Earth.

Buy him flowers and fruits and let Xi and Putin escort both to Iran.

It’s a matter of we would not do it again. Please forgive us. Is that simple!

If those interceptors should finish and this guy gets angry, it will be ABSOLUTE devastation.

“China and Russia are providing satellite intelligence which accounts for some of the tremendous successes [of Iran] particularly in Israel, and our US bases. All of our bases have been destroyed. Our harbor installations are destroyed. We actually have to fall back on India and Indian ports which is less than ideal. And I think Iran, much to our disappointment, is fairing very very well.”

-Former U.S. Army Colonel Douglas Macgregor

Righteousness2:
Una talk pass this for the wasted TERRORISTS Mullah.

From Venezuela to Syria and now Iran, Everybody your Russia and China have given satellite and all sorts to have Collasped.

When you hear the word " TECHNOLOGY ", That is ISRAEL.
ISRAEL is Technology. Technology is ISRAEL.
Everything Technology on Earth today has an input from the Jews.

Except ISRAEL do not want to Destroy you, their is Nothing Technological you can do against them.

FreeStuffsNG:
This is the person that Trump and the Isreali media lied to the world that they have martyred. Smh.

While Isreal was celeberating the bombing of an empty building, he was being elected as the new Supreme Leader during Ramadan period.

It is loiking more and more clear that Iran actually was better prepared for these scenarios of war.

shox:
This guy is probably gonna live the rest of his life moving from bunker to bunker

dederocs:
Virgins await eagerly...good speed.

masterfactor:
The way this matter dey pain you, e be like say youself dey interested in those virgin ooooo

zinaunreal:
LONG LIVE THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN

I am a Christian with common sense

masterfactor:
Congratulations to Iran, an old chip from the old block, lion no dey born cat