Even after the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, US-Israeli attacks continue. Meanwhile, the Islamic Republic has got a new supreme leader. According to Iranian government media, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s son Mojtaba Khamenei has been appointed Supreme Leader. 56 year old Mojtaba Khamenei is also a fundamentalist religious leader like his father. Let us tell you that the Supreme Leader in Iran is a position that has the right to take the final decision in all matters of Iran and is more powerful than the President.
How did Mojtaba get this post?
Mojtaba is said to be close to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). After the death of Ali Khamenei, Mojtaba’s name was in the forefront for this post. Let us tell you that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was assassinated by America and Israel only after they started attacking Iran. Iran’s ruling ideology abhors succession based on lineage, yet he has a powerful supporter within the IRGC and in his late father’s influential office, which is why he got the post.
Went to Islamic Military Corps after high school
Mojtaba Khamenei is the second son of Ali Khamenei. He was born in 1969 in Mashhad. This was the time when Iran was under Shah rule, about ten years before the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Mojtaba Khamenei is known for his close ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC). After completing high school, he entered the Islamic Military Corps in 1987. He served in the last phase of the Iran-Iraq war which lasted from 1980 to 1988. The very next year in 1989, his father Ali Khamenei was appointed Supreme Leader of Iran after the death of Ruhollah Khomeini.
‘Son of a master’ accused of interfering in elections
When conservative leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was elected president in 2005, reformists accused Mojtaba of colluding with religious leaders and the Revolutionary Guards to play a role in Ahmadinejad’s victory. Reformist leader Mehdi Karrubi had accused the ‘son of a master’ of interfering in the elections. At that time, Ali Khamenei had defended his son and said that he was ‘a master himself, not just the son of a master’.
Who was running Iran till now?
After the death of Ali Khamenei, in Iran, not one person but an interim council of three people was handling the supreme responsibility of the country. This includes Alireza Arafi (Interim Supreme Leader), President Massoud Pezeshkian and Chief Justice of Iran Gholam Hossein Mohseni-Ajei. Before Mojtaba’s name was revealed, Eshkevari, one of the 88 members of the assembly, said in a video published in Iranian media that Khamenei’s name would remain.
At that time it was being speculated that Mojtaba Khamenei’s name had been approved. Eshkewari himself had told that voting has been done and the results will be declared soon. Both Israel and Donald Trump have given stern warnings regarding the new Supreme Leader. He has said that if necessary, the new leader can also be targeted.
Donald Trump wanted him to have a role in the election of the next Supreme Leader, but Iran clearly rejected this demand. Even on Sunday, Trump had said that the next Supreme Leader of Iran will not last long without my approval.
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