Ayatollah Khamenei’s son is front-runner to succeed dad as Iran’s new supreme leader: report
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The son of Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is the frontrunner to replace him as supreme leader, according to reports.

Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, was tapped to assume control of the country by Iran’s Assembly of experts, Iranian International reported Tuesday.

Motjaba is known for a staunch adherence to his father’s hardline conservatism, and has close ties to Iran’s notoriously brutal Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps military body, according to CNN.

  • mstrk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    11 days ago

    He wasn’t elected, rumors are that the clerics were pressured to vote for the son of the supreme leader…

    • iglou@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      11 days ago

      Well that’s something else, but it doesnt change the fact thaft an election can be a small group of people electing a nation leader.

      • Danquebec@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        10 days ago

        Yeah.

        Election of the pope.

        Election of the chair.

        Those elections are done by a small group of people.