Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's son Mojtaba Khamenei named Iran's next supreme leader
Middle East,Iran,Ayatollah Khamenei,Islam,Donald Trump,Israel
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Mojtaba Khamenei — the son of slain Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei — has been tapped as the regime's next supreme leader, Iranian state media announced Sunday.
The 56-year-old new leader — who has been dismissed by President Trump as a "lightweight" — was chosen by the nation's elite clerical panel known as the Assembly of Experts just eight days after his 86-year-old father was killed in US-Israeli strikes on his Tehran compound during Operation Epic Fury.
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