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.

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    8 hours ago

    This is exactly what they want, but I doubt the Kurds are going to trust them anymore, so the US really has no control over how things settle.

    The US is currently operating at the strategic level of a drive-by shooter.