Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, was tapped to assume control of the country by Iran’s Assembly of experts, Iranian International reported Tuesday.
Motjaba is known for a staunch adherence to his father’s hardline conservatism, and has close ties to Iran’s notoriously brutal Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps military body, according to CNN.
Is that the regime change Trump and Netanyahoo wanted?
Just when you think the orange was the worst…this guy tops them all…
The new psycho moron, has likely already toured the old one in worldwide deaths.
Between Covid mishandling and doge cuts he’s on his way past millions needlessly dying.
Trump just wants to have his own Zero Dark Thirty moment.
Nero Dork Turdy
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Motjaba is known for a staunch adherence to his father’s hardline conservatism
So all we have managed to accomplish in the last week of bombing Iran is kill a bunch of civilians and get the younger but just as hard line version Ayatollah Khamenei?
Excellent, very good.
It was a knee-jerk response to the Trump-Epstein files scandal…I mean…uhh…I meant to say…they’ve been planning this for months.
Not everything has to do with Epstein, you know.
Israel saw this as an opportunity to kill parts of the Iranian leadership and couldn’t resist. The US just joined in so Trump could win another FIFA peace price.
You’re right. Not everything does.
But this war is a distraction from the Epstein files. Operation Epstein Fury.
We also managed to take out a vast amount of ballistic missiles, their launchers, air defense, aircraft, boats and regime related infrastructure and the whole top 40 in the chain of command.
If it was true they’re would not be able to elect a replacent if you thrust american media.
Is the USA tired of winning yet? The rest of us would like to resume life as normal please.
The son of Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is the frontrunner to replace him as supreme leader, according to reports.
He is not selected yet, according to your linked article. Your post title says he is elected according to reports.
It was all worth it.
So Iran turned into another gulf monarch dictatorship just like the rest of US allies. Task failed successfully.
“Elected”.
Yes, he was elected by the council who’s job it is to elect that position.
You see how that’s NOT election right? That’s just a group of elites appointing an heir.
It’s still called an election. It’s just not democratic.
He’s not a king, dude. I don’t love their system of government, where they give any share of power to religious representatives… but it is their system. They also do have elections for parliament and president. I don’t know much more than that, but it’s not like the ayatollah is an absolute monarch.
An election is not necessarily something done by the people. What you’re thinking of is called “universal suffrage”.
He wasn’t elected, rumors are that the clerics were pressured to vote for the son of the supreme leader…
Well that’s something else, but it doesnt change the fact thaft an election can be a small group of people electing a nation leader.
Yeah.
Election of the pope.
Election of the chair.
Those elections are done by a small group of people.
you mean like the Shah?
So the orange likes to get young blood into power for longevity of his ideas…I’m guessing this was his plan all along? I would also imagine if Russia weren’t preoccupied with Zelensky, he’d be all over this?
It’s the NY Post. Might as well be a roll of cheap Scott toilet tissue. You know, the kind of paper that scratches your ass up
The NY post is fantastic at its job, which is to disseminate disinformation with an occasional “factoid” thrown in for cheap laughs
The US is probably tracking his bowel movements already. I give him a week
I am surprised people responding to this piece of news to be valid information when Iran would make this public when they choose the next leader.
Incoming bombs on the new surpreme leader in 5…4…3…
“Elected”?
A great many authoritarian systems throughout history, especially in the ancient world, have had a selection system that formalises compromise between the major power brokers to prevent the whole group being made easy pickings to outsiders by succession struggles.
Primogeniture is not the default because the oldest son often sucks.
The electors here are influential clergy members and high ranking military officials.
A leader (or at least one that wants to build a stable base of power) needs their immediate subordinates to believe in their legitimacy. The foundation of power is obedience, and the belief that you have the right to give commands that ought to be obeyed is a very effective mechanism. An election is one way to secure that legitimacy, no matter how foregone the conclusion or how large the body of electors.
Historically, you might look at the Holy Roman Emperors and the prince-electors that (at least formally) chose them. What matters is that some people obey some people who obey some people who ultimately came to the consensus to all obey the same person.
(Of course, that obedience based on legitimacy may have limits, depending on the principles underpinning that legitimacy. If the foundation is god’s favour, the impression that a ruler is losing that favour may well threaten his power as well, which is how you get kings pleading with the pope to retract his excommunication: if he doesn’t, his vassals might withdraw support.)
So, yes, some circle of people who are commonly accepted to have that power elected him. Nobody said it has to be a fair election, so long as the important people respect its result.
Say what you want about the man, he has no fucks left to give
If only Hollywood Nepotism was this high stakes. Imagine? Arnold Schwarzenegger has died. Now up is his son Patrick from White Lotus who is now on a kill list!
