Mojtaba Khamenei survives strikes on Iran, poised to become next supreme leader, sources say-

Iran’s Assembly of Experts is expected to announce the country’s next supreme leader soon after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s death.

Mojtaba Khamenei survives strikes on Iran, poised to become next supreme leader, sources say
Iran’s Assembly of Experts is expected to announce the country’s next supreme leader soon after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s death.

Mojtaba Khamenei, son of former Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Mojtaba Khamenei, son of former Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Mojtaba Khamenei has reportedly survived the strike on Iran and is seen by the establishment as the prospective next supreme leader, two Iranian sources told Reuters on Wednesday.

Mojtaba is seen by the establishment as a possible successor to his father, the sources said.

Iran’s Assembly of Experts has selected Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the late supreme leader Ali Khamenei, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Saturday, as the Islamic Republic’s next supreme leader, according to reports in Iranian opposition media.

According to reports, Mojtaba’s wife Zahra Haddad-Adel, and a son were among those killed in the airstrike that killed his father.
Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, is currently favored to take control of Iran by the country’s Assembly of Experts, a powerful body of clerics that makes the decision, the New York Times reported while citing sources close to the deliberations.

Other outlets – including Israeli media and Iranian opposition channels – were reporting early Tuesday that Mojtaba had already been selected, though Iranian state media has not confirmed anything.