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

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

Iran's clerical leadership chose confrontation over compromise in appointing Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his father.

Mojtaba Khamenei is to replace his father as Iran’s new supreme leader