Mojtaba Khamenei was declared Iran’s Supreme Leader on Sunday (March 8). The country’s Assembly of Experts elected him to the position.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has congratulated Mojtaba Khamenei. The force has recognized him as Iran’s new supreme leader. In a statement carried by state media, the IRGC declared its “sincere and lifelong loyalty” to Khamenei. It stressed that “they will obey all orders and are always ready to implement them.”
A report on who Mojtaba Khamenei was and what level of leadership he was at was published in Prothom Alo on March 5. You can read the report again.
Ali Khamenei was killed on the first day of the joint US-Israeli attack on Iran.
After Ali Khamenei was killed in a US-Israeli attack, discussions began about who would become Iran’s supreme leader, although no official announcement has been made by Iranian authorities.
However, Israeli and Western media are saying that Mojtaba Khamenei is leading the race to become Iran’s supreme leader.
Last Saturday, in a joint Israeli-US attack, in addition to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, his wife, Mojtaba Khamenei’s wife, and a sister were killed. However, Mojtaba Khamenei was not present at the scene of the attack that day. Since then, intense bombing of Iran has continued. However, Mojtaba Khamenei is alive.
Mojtaba Khamenei has never run for office or held any official position, but he has played a key role as an influential figure in the Supreme Leader’s inner circle for decades.
Mojtaba has also developed deep ties with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
For years, there has been much talk of Mojtaba Khamenei as a potential successor to his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who served as Iran’s supreme leader for nearly eight years before being killed in a joint US-Israeli strike on his compound in Tehran on Saturday.
