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.
It is so cosmically funny to me that he pulled that whole stunt with the jet only for the speech to be exclusively remembered as “The Mission Accomplished Speech”. Some people will have to google “george bush jet stunt” to know what I’m talking about, which is remarkable considering how hard they tried to make it a thing at the time.
I refuse to criticize anyone that decides to take a jet landing with an arrested stop on an aircraft carrier compared to just a simple helicopter landing. That’s cool as hell.
Everything else about this moment was stupid and misleading though.