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.

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    16 hours ago

    So the orange likes to get young blood into power for longevity of his ideas…I’m guessing this was his plan all along? I would also imagine if Russia weren’t preoccupied with Zelensky, he’d be all over this?