Mojtaba Khamenei and his children on Quds Day in 2018. (Tasnim News Agency)
Iran’s Assembly of Experts has named Mojtaba Khamenei to replace his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as the country’s new supreme leader, state media reported early on March 9.
Mojtaba, Ali’s second-eldest son, was born in 1969. As a child, he witnessed both the 1979 Iranian Revolution that toppled the previous dynasty, and his father’s rise to power, first as president in 1981, then as supreme leader in 1989.
A cleric, Mojtaba studied under the late Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi. He also joined the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, serving during the Iran-Iraq War in the Habib Battalion.
Mojtaba has been named in recent days as the frontrunner to succeed his father, who was killed on February 28, the first day of United States-Israeli strikes on Iran.
U.S. President Donald Trump has called the younger Khamenei “unacceptable” and demanded to have input in choosing Iran’s next supreme leader. On March 8, he said whoever was chosen to replace the late supreme leader would not “last long” without his approval.
“He’s going to have to get approval from us,” Trump told ABC News. “If he doesn’t get approval from us he’s not going to last long. We want to make sure that we don’t have to go back every 10 years, when you don’t have a president like me that’s not going to do it.”
“I don’t want people to have to go back in five years and have to do the same thing again, or worse let them have a nuclear weapon,” he added.
The Israeli military also issued a direct threat, saying that it will continue pursuing every successor of Iran’s slain supreme leader.
“After neutralizing the tyrant Khamenei, the terrorist regime of Iran is attempting to rebuild itself and select a new leader,” the IDF said in a post on X in Persian on March 8.
“Iran’s Assembly of Experts, which has not convened for decades, will soon gather in the city of Qom. We want to tell you that the hand of the State of Israel will continue to pursue every successor and every person who seeks to appoint a successor,” warns the military. “We warn all those who intend to participate in the successor selection meeting that we will not hesitate to target you either.”
Mojtaba is expected to be more hardline than his father, thus, the war will likely go on under his command. His selection comes as a blow to both the U.S. and Israel who repeatedly claimed that the ongoing war had weakened the government of the Islamic Republic.
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that weakling won’t even last a week.
nena that is not the point. they think differently compared to westerners. they are sacrificing themselves. the world tyrant orange man is absolutely disgustingly arrogant. iran ideology is anti tyrant. westerners cannot understand that since they purged their own population from people able to resist tyranny for decades. they think only others are brainwashed; that is the efficiency of soft power.
stupid cowardly persians. only 30,000 arabs kick the sheet out of 150,000 persian sasanian empire forces in the battle nahavand and turned them into the useless islamic towelhead automatons that they now are.
bla,bla,bla of an inpotent.
estupit. how could a nena be inpotent?
the important thing is that iran was already destroyed in december 2024 and they were too stupid to know. i don’t blame them.soleimani, utkin and nasralah, who are smart, were dead.
the rest are complete asses.
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tell me, do you think that massacre of 165 iranian girls was dedicated to yahweh, moloch, or baal? i know dump worships one of these characters because otherwise he wouldn’t have killed 165 iranian girls and wouldn’t be participating in the worship of a horned deity on epstein’s island.
they are stupid because they did not keep syria. if iran had syria, the pedophile dump would not dare to kill iranian girls… epstein buried two dead russian or ukrainian girls in his backyard. and that’s because he dared. he dared to kill innocent girls during his and dump sacrifice girls. the ancient greeks and romans wrote that iranians are stupid and obedient. but they were so stupid that they thought they would have a deal if they betrayed syria.i never, ever thought that.
le ith a b ou fa d el is dead. everyone forgot about that woman.nobody cared about her.i thought her s out hf ront friends ca red .they did n’t.i though t her ala wit e friends cared. they didn’t. they didn’t c are.
they don’t care now.i’m ho rr ified that everything is forgotten so quic kly. that’s why i only want one thing.that isis-k would take cont ol of their latak ia and tartus and that the uy ghu rs and uzbeks would show them what traitors deserve.
unlike westerners and you who said you were going to sleep in your basement out of fear the muslims want to die and go to heaven.
soleimani knew he had to keep syria because if he didn’t he will have problems with israel.the iranians are stupid for let up on syria.a deal with the devil, satan and lucifer is possible.a deal with the us is impossible.the father of this hairy idiot should know not to listen to putin. putin is a traitor. erdogan was take control of syria. then the crooks will definitely come for iran.soleimani was smart and knew that they had to keep syria. here in this picture i only see a carnival.
this new ayatollah is not smart. if he were smart, he would order hezbollah to immediately shoot all alawites who fled syria. these people are traitors and the main culprits of the calamity that befell iran.
how do these morons think they’re going to solve the basic problem that has no solution?
the basic problem arose in december 2024 and that’s when hezbollah should have told them that the alawites have no right to flee to lebanon. that if they flee to lebanon after this betrayal they committed, they themselves will kill them. the matter is certainly so terrible because the iranians do not even see the real cause of this disaster that has befallen them.
the iranians should demand that russia pay for the irani drones with the death of all the traitors. the main traitor is bashar al-assad. putin certainly has enough poison and teenagers to slaughter (or poison) every traitor from the first to the last. htt ps://ww w.exp ress.co.uk/ne ws/w o rld/2179736/sch oolb oy-14-s tabs-2-ru ssian-n uclear-sci enti sts-p utin were scientists betrayed russian state secrets that putler send little kids to be slaughtered scientists on the street?
the joo gangsters and their amerikunt whores have murdered a moderate figure who prevented the development of nuclear weapons on ethical and religious grounds. an 87 year old disabled man. now replaced by his son, who has seen his father, wife and son murdered by this scum. you can imagine his reaction in the days and weeks to come when chumpo and the chosenites come begging for a ceasefire, and when western economies start to collapse.
with appeals from all the joo bootlickers like merz, leyen, starmer and their ilk to “be reasonable” and “show restraint.” and how the new leadership will react when the issue of a north korean style nuclear deterrent is raised again.
i guess this clown 99 luftballons is talking about the usa.
when a irgc ballistic missile armed with a cluster warhead reaches a usn cvn, that cvn is going back to the nearest friendly port with a flight deck peppered with holes and an airwing that is non functional and out of action for months if not years.
long live persia
fuck america israel and the j e w s
iran is fighting for all humanity against the forces of evil.
żydowskie pachoły z europy i ameryki oraz arabscy zdrajcy przeprowadzają holokaust persów. tak samo podczas pseudo pandemii mordowali miliony ludzi szczepieniami i sianiem terroru.
but, but, how is that possible??!!!?!!!!,ha, ha, ha
filhos da puta, se eliminais um comentário, também tendes que eliminar o but, but, tais fodidos porque nunca mais ides dormir em paz.
censorship censorship censorship sf censorship queens going into overdrive.
russian jews. lets return to motherland, russia.
you can’t do this daddy don was gonna pick
cada vez estais mais estúpidos.
he will be dead soon…heheheh
you are going to kill trump?
the jooz will off chumpo as soon as he outlives his usefulness, just like charlie kirk.
zionism is already dead…israel failed the jews
zionist state still getting bombed because of that stupidity. trump did a great job showing to the world who is the real enemy as these epstein class no longer hide behind the masks
mojtaba has already been liquidated yesterday. went to meet ali and mansoureh in hell.
your future has been liquidated……israel is a failure
the world can no longer afford the jooz and all their shit*fu**ery.
defiance against the zios, regime change failed in iran
islamic iran isn’t just losing this war.
they’re being obliterated.
the us and israel aren’t just winning the war.
they’re dominating
tehran is up in flames and has become a ghost town.
tel aviv is hoppin and boppin as usual.
that’s the truth.
the rest is propaganda.
sf censorship queens going into overdrive again.
are you going to open up the borders for the 1 million iranian refugees? this number is from today after 1 week of fighting. there are still 89 million iranians that are not planning on leaving. and you won’t be able to topple iran which has enough weapons to continue fighting for another decade and maybe even two if china starts flooding it with more weapons.
in last night’s strike on a hotel in beirut, four senior islamic terrorists of the quds force officials were dispatched.
• head of the finance branch in the lebanon corps – majid hassini
• head of intelligence in the lebanon corps – ali bi azar
• head of intelligence department in the palestine corps – ahmad rasouli
• official in charge of the “zionist” file in the lebanon corps hossein ahmadlou
hell aviv blackout. the experiment called israel is failing. why jews have no idea how to live in peace? because talmudics like to fyck their neices!!!
i wouldn’t announce anything to the enemy. i would only announce after the conflict is over. this is going to be like nasrallah and son. the global south doesn’t need to lie and deceive like the west does to survive, but don’t be so open. hide and conceal some information for goodness sake.
its the defiant spirit of the persians. if israel thinks it can keep assassinating itself out of every problem for the next 100 years, the jews need to urgently evolve past the age of bacteria. all their energies are a waste of oxygen
even in the jewsa the jooz are about as popular as a rattlesnake in a lucky dip. they will murder a lot of people and wreck the world economy, but they are just digging their own grave.
ssshhh! don’t mention the oil price! the censorship queens at sf don’t like it!
dead man walking