Mojtaba Khamenei, the second son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been appointed Iran’s new supreme leader, state media report.
Following a vote by the assembly of experts, a group of clerics in charge of selecting Iran’s highest authority, the 56-year-old younger Khamenei was named as his father’s successor on Sunday.
Recall that Saturday, his father, Iran’s former supreme leader was murdered during US and Israeli strikes.
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