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.
Imagine if Don Jr was the new president after Trump. That’s what this is. America is bombing the cities where the reformist (think liberals in america) live. Traditionalists live in the rural areas (like in the US maga lives in the boonies). Their MAGA just elected their Don Jr. No one in the sticks is dying over there.
There is no conservative vs progressive dynamic in Iran, because there are no free elections in Iran.
Did you seriously just claim theres no conservative & progressively dynamic in Iran?
Have you been living under a rock the last 50 years?
73 actually
Check this report out:
Vice travels to Iran
Anecdotally: As a child I was close friends with the child of a progressive Iranian woman who left Iran to be free in America. She’s not Muslim (her parents were), and sent her son to a Baptist church with me for after school activities.