The 56-year-old cleric takes power days after Israeli-US strikes killed his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

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Members of the Iranian body charged with selecting the country's new supreme leader said a candidate has been chosen, but no name has been revealed.

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