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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      I see they did decide on him in a REMOTE meeting (apparently leadership figured out that perhaps hanging out together in the same building wasn’t the smartest call)?