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Large crowds took to the streets of Tehran in a defiant show of support for Mojtaba Khamenei, the country's newly appointed supreme leader.
In Tehran's Enghelab Square on Monday, thousands of people gathered to pledge allegiance to Iran's new supreme leader, hours after the appointment was officially announced.
Chanting “Death to America, Death to Israel” and “God is Great,” some waved Iranian flags, others banners with a portrait of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the new leader’s father, who was killed after 37 years in power by an Israeli airstrike in the early hours of the war. Armored vehicles lined nearby streets and security personnel were stationed on the rooftops of surrounding buildings.
"The path of the martyred Imam Khamenei will continue under the name of Khamenei," said Hosseinali Eshkevari, a member of Iran's Assembly of Experts, the body tasked with electing the supreme leader.
Another member, Mohsen Heydari, said that the late Ali Khamenei had recommended selecting the candidate who is "hated by the enemy."
Defiant rhetoric in Tehran and the appointment of Khamenei, who is seen by analysts as a hardliner with close ties to the Revolutionary Guard, intensified fears that the conflict could drag on for weeks or even months and leave deep instability behind.
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