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.

DUBAI: Two influential and hardline Iranian clerics have called for the swift selection of a new supreme leader to help guide the nation amid a new wave of US and Israeli…

The leader has been determined, Assembly member Ahmad Alamolhoda said

The 56-year-old Mojtaba Khamenei is set to continue leadership of Iran in the same vein as his father