24 minutes agoWho is Iran's new leader, Moxtaba Khamenei?
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(4 months ago)Mojtaba Khamenei has been confirmed as the new Iranian Supreme Leader only third in the country's history. The 56-year-old follows his father, Ajatolah Ali Khamenei, who was killed at his complex in Tehran on the first day of the war. He was the supreme leader for more than 37 years before his death. Moses [...]
Mojtaba Khamenei has been confirmed as the new Iranian Supreme Leader only third in the country's history.
The 56-year-old follows his father, Ajatolah Ali Khamenei, who was killed at his complex in Tehran on the first day of the war.
He was the supreme leader for more than 37 years before his death.
Moses was not there, and he survived, but his mother, wife, and daughter were killed.
The Supreme Leader is elected by “the expert collection”, a body of 88 Islamic scholars selected all for their loyalty to the regime.
A building where the assembly gathered was destroyed in an air strike, but it is thought that none of them were present at the time.
Little is known about Mojataba Khamene.
He is Ayatolah's second-largest son Ali Khamenei and has kept a low profile over the years, rarely speaking publicly or praying Friday prayer.
He is a hardline conservative who served in the Habib Battalion of Revolutionary Guard during the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s.
It has been linked to the violent crackdown on protests in Iran.
His time in the IRC helped him to build relationships with men who now hold high positions in the country.
Khamenei is under US sanctions, but is said to have amassed a valuable empire of property worldwide, including London.
Unlike his father, who was a scholar of Persian poetry and a strong speaker with a large number of followers within Iran before becoming supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei does not have a strong reputation in the country.
The position of the Supreme Leader is not only the ultimate authority in Iran; he (and is always a man) is the protector of the Islamic Republic.
Although Mojataba Khamenei studied in the holy city of Com, he was only a middle - ranking clergyman, not a high - ranking Ayathola.
Passing the role of the ancestor's son, the expert assembly has actually created a dynasty not very different from a monarch, but Iranians don't like the dynasties they overturned the Qayar dynasty in 1925 and then the Pahlav monarchy in 1979.
Although Mojtaba has an impact within Iranian political internal circles, he has never held public office, nor has he been elected to any governmental role. /Telegraphy/
