Iran names Ayatollah Khamenei’s son as new leader after father’s killing ○
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2026 › March › 08
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Iranian state television has announced that the Assembly of Experts has chosen Mojtaba Khamenei as supreme leader.
Appointing a new leader is the least of Iran’s troubles ⊖⊖
Regime lines up Khamenei’s son for the top job in a country reeling from the US-Israeli onslaught and virtually at war with its Gulf neighbours
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The Assembly of Experts…
Amid escalation, Iran religious scholars signal new leader to be named soon ⊖
'Some obstacles have to be removed' and selection must be undisputed inside government, Assembly of Experts members say.
Iran’s Assembly of Experts says consensus reached on Khamenei’s successor ⊕
Officials say a candidate has been picked based on late supreme leader's advice that he should be 'hated by the enemy'.
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