Assasination fears have intensified in Iran after Iranian state television announced Mojtaba Khamenei as the country's new Supreme Leader and said he had been wounded in the current war. The report has shoved a darker question into the centre of events in Tehran, namely whether the son of former leader Ali Khamenei could quickly become a target for Israel or forces aligned with Donald Trump.
The alarm did not begin with the reported injury. Mojtaba's elevation was already presented as one of the most contentious successions since the aftermath of the Iranian Revolution, not least because he is stepping into a role still shaped by his father's death and by a confrontation involving Iran, Israel and the United States that shows no sign of easing.
