Iran has reportedly named Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as the country’s new supreme leader following his father’s death.
Iran’s powerful clerical body, the Assembly of Experts, announced the decision after what state media described as a decisive vote to choose the country’s next leader.
The leadership change comes after Ali Khamenei was reportedly killed in a joint United States-Israeli strike during the escalating Iran war, triggering a major political transition in the Islamic Republic
Mojtaba Khamenei, a 56-year-old cleric with close ties to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, had long been considered a possible successor despite never holding a formal government office.
His appointment marks a rare father-to-son transfer of power in Iran, a system originally designed to avoid hereditary rule after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
The new leader is expected to guide Iran through one of the most volatile periods in its history, as the conflict with Israel and tensions with the United States continue to escalate across the Middle East.
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