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.

  • BigFig@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    You see how that’s NOT election right? That’s just a group of elites appointing an heir.

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      10 hours ago

      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.