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Iran’s Regime Declares New Supreme Leader — And The Bloodline Continues
The next supreme leader of Iran will be the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s son, Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran’s clerical body that appoints the country’s supreme leader announced on Sunday.Iran’s Assembly of Experts said the younger Khamenei had been chosen with a “decisive vote” and urged Iranians to rally behind him, putting an emphasis on the “elites and intellectuals of the seminaries and universities.”Prior to the announcement, President Donald Trump said that the next supreme leader is “not going to last long” without U.S. approval.“He’s going to have to get approval from us,” Trump said. “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.”The elder Khamenei was selected as supreme leader following the death of the Islamic Republic’s founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who overthrew Iran’s dynastic shah during the 1979 revolution. With his son now assuming the position, the transition may raise questions about whether the Islamic Republic...
By: people.com
