Iran’s clerical establishment did not have to look very far to find a successor to the country’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, who was killed last week.
They chose his son, Mojtaba Khamenei, sending an important message at a moment of war – the Islamic Republic intends to continue, not transform.
The decision by the Assembly of Experts is precisely the opposite of the type of candidate the United States had been hoping for.
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