Iran’s Assembly of Experts announces Mojtaba Khamenei as new supreme leader

TEHRAN: Iran on Monday named Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his father Ali Khameneias Supreme ​Leader, signaling that hard-liners remain firmly in charge in Tehran a week into its conflict with the United States and Israel. Mojtaba, a mid-ranking cleric with influence inside Iran’s security forces and vast business networks under his father, had been seen as a frontrunner in the lead up to the vote by the assembly, a body of 88 clerics charged with choosing the new leader after Ali Khamenei.

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