Authorities in Iran announced on Monday that Mojtaba Khamenei, son of late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been named as the country’s next Supreme Leader, as US and Israeli attacks enter day 10 and continue to pummel the capital, Tehran.
Iran’s Assembly of Experts chose as next leader a secretive, 56-year-old cleric, who maintains close relationship with the country’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard Corps. The group has been responsible for much of Iran’s response to the war, and have vowed to avenge the death of Ali Khamenei, who was killed on 28 February during the war’s opening salvo.
