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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    4 hours ago

    I’ve seen some reporting that claims the US and Israel is bombing leftist opposition in Iran. And arming Kurdish militants. Seems like they just want Iran completely destabilized.

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      2 hours ago

      This is exactly what they want, but I doubt the Kurds are going to trust them anymore, so the US really has no control over how things settle.

      The US is currently operating at the strategic level of a drive-by shooter.