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Iranian state media has confirmed that Iran has appointed Mojtaba Khamenei as the country's new supreme leader, following the killing of his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in US-Israeli airstrikes on February 28.
He was chosen by Iran's Assembly of Experts, an 88-member body of elected senior clerics tasked with choosing the supreme leader.
The assembly has elected a new leader only once before since the founding of the Islamic Republic in 1979. That was when Ali Khamenei was hastily elected after the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini more than three decades ago.
The election of Mojtaba Khamenei (56), who has operated in the shadows for years as a key figure in his father's office and with strong ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), is seen as a sign of the regime's continued hardline stance, but has sparked internal debate over the "hereditary" nature of the decision, which runs counter to the previous tradition of non-family elections. An official announcement is expected within the next few days.
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