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Zara Riffler

Iran succession: Mojtaba Khamenei linked to luxury European property network

Following the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on 28 February, Iran's Assembly of Experts has appointed his son Mojtaba Khamenei as the country's new Supreme Leader, defying threats from the United States and Israel to oppose him.

"By a decisive vote, the Assembly of Experts appointed Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei as the third leader of the sacred system of the Islamic Republic of Iran," the assembly said in a statement issued just after midnight Tehran time.

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