Iran has now launched missiles toward Israel and Gulf countries early on Monday after the Islamic Republic appointed Mojtaba Khamenei, son of its late supreme leader as its new leader to replace his late father, despite Israel’s and the United States’ threats to strike him next.
Iranian clerics chose the nation’s third supreme leader since the Islamic Revolution of 1979 nine days after US-Israeli strikes killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and sparked a conflict in the Middle East.
As the growing conflict caused equities to plummet and crude prices to soar 30% due to supply disruption concerns, Israel initiated a fresh round of attacks, this time focusing on infrastructure in central Iran.
Drones en route to an oil field in the east were intercepted by Saudi Arabia, missile assaults were reported by Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, and sirens were triggered in Bahrain.
Mojtaba’s appointment was announced on the state television, with the presenter solemnly reading a statement from the 88-member Assembly of Experts next to a picture of the new 56-year-old leader.
Khamenei “is appointed and introduced as the third leader of the sacred system of the Islamic Republic of Iran, based on the decisive vote of the respected representatives of the Assembly of Experts”, the statement said.
It said that despite “the brutal aggression of the criminal America and the evil Zionist regime,” the clerical body “did not hesitate for a minute” in selecting a new head.
State media then showed a projectile said to be launched at Israel bearing the slogan, “At Your Command, Sayyid Mojtaba”, using an Islamic honorific.
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Meanwhile, this comes only few days after US President Donald Trump previously dismissed the Mojtaba Khamenei as a “lightweight,” and insisted again that he should have a say in appointing a new leader.
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