Ayatollah Khamenei’s son is front-runner to succeed dad as Iran’s new supreme leader: report
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The son of Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is the frontrunner to replace him as supreme leader, according to reports.

Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, was tapped to assume control of the country by Iran’s Assembly of experts, Iranian International reported Tuesday.

Motjaba is known for a 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.

  • flop_leash_973@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Motjaba is known for a staunch adherence to his father’s hardline conservatism

    So all we have managed to accomplish in the last week of bombing Iran is kill a bunch of civilians and get the younger but just as hard line version Ayatollah Khamenei?

    Excellent, very good.

    • melsaskca@lemmy.caEnglish
      71·
      10 days ago

      It was a knee-jerk response to the Trump-Epstein files scandal…I mean…uhh…I meant to say…they’ve been planning this for months.

    • Threeme2189@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      47·
      11 days ago

      We also managed to take out a vast amount of ballistic missiles, their launchers, air defense, aircraft, boats and regime related infrastructure and the whole top 40 in the chain of command.