The Iranian clerics, who’ve been in power since 1979, haven’t learned any lessons from the last few days. In major defiance of reality, they have now chosen Khamenei’s son Mojtaba as Iran’s next Supreme Leader.
Just over a week since Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in a strike on his compound, his son was tapped by a body of senior officials to be the country’s next supreme leader, according to state media.
A powerful regime insider, deeply intertwined with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, is a choice by Iran’s Assembly of Experts that sends a strong message of defiance against President Donald Trump as Iran remains locked in a war with the United States and Israel.
Ali Khamenei, who dominated the country for decades, was killed in an attack in Tehran as the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28.
You’d think that the clerics might’ve gotten a reality check with the Ayatollah and a significant majority of the Iranian leadership getting killed dead over the last week. One would think they’d take a step back and perhaps elect someone who is a moderate.
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