Ayatollah Khamenei’s son is frontrunner to succeed dad as Iran’s new supreme leader: report
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The son of Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is the frontrunner to replace him as supreme leader, according to reports.

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.

  • thesdev@feddit.orgEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    There is no conservative vs progressive dynamic in Iran, because there are no free elections in Iran.

    • nomy@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      29 minutes ago

      Did you seriously just claim theres no conservative & progressively dynamic in Iran?

      Have you been living under a rock the last 50 years?

    • Horsey@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      18 minutes ago

      Check this report out:

      Vice travels to Iran

      As a child I was close friends with a progressive Iranian woman who left Iran to be free in America. She’s not Muslim (her parents were), and sent her son to Christian school with me, and later, a Baptist church for after school activities.