Mojtaba Khamenei’s rumoured injury or death won’t change Iran’s trajectory

His father, Ali Khamenei, built the office of the supreme leader into an institution that does not depend on a single leader.

Research Fellow at the International Institute of Social History.

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When Mojtaba Khamenei’s elevation as Iran’s new supreme leader was announced, many observers treated it chiefly as a confirmation of a new hardliner order in Tehran. Subsequent rumours about his injury or even death, sparked by his disappearance from public view, have fuelled speculations of what that may mean for the Iranian regime.