Anonymous25 days ago
Mojtaba Khamenei, the 56-year-old son of slain Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, was declared Iran's third Supreme Leader on March 8, 2026, just eight days after his father was killed in a joint US-Israeli airstrike — marking the first dynastic succession in the Islamic Republic's history. A hardline figure who never held elected office yet wielded enormous behind-the-scenes power through deep ties to the IRGC, Mojtaba inherits a nation at war, an economy in crisis, and faces questions about whether real authority rests with him or the military commanders who engineered his appointment.