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.

  • SpicyWizard@slrpnk.net
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    6 hours ago

    Yes, but nothing actually changed then. Like you said it was an election by clerics, it just happened that they decided to choose his son.

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      2 hours ago

      Well they’ve just seen what happened to the last guy. They didn’t want the job themselves…