Mojtaba Khamenei has reportedly been chosen as Iran’s next Supreme Leader, state media reported on Sunday (March 8, 2026)
The announcement by the Iran’s Assembly of Experts came just over a week after his father Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s death on February 28, 2026 in joint strikes by Israel and the U.S.
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The 56-year-old mid-ranking cleric, who has survived the U.S.-Israeli air war on Iran, was named as the successor after the council had more or less reached a “majority consensus”. Assembly of Experts member Ayatollah Mohsen Heidari Alekasir, said in a video on Sunday (March 8, 2026) that a candidate had been selected based on Khamenei’s guidance that Iran’s top leader should be “hated by the enemy”.
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