While pro-establishment crowds celebrate Khamenei's appointment as his father's successor, others believe it signals no change to how Iran is ruled.

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.

Regime lines up Khamenei’s son for the top job in a country reeling from the US-Israeli onslaught and virtually at war with its Gulf neighbours

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