Ayatollah Khamenei's son is front-runner to succeed dad as Iran's new supreme leader: report
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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.

  • thesdev@feddit.orgEnglish
    715·
    7 hours ago

    There is no conservative vs progressive dynamic in Iran, because there are no free elections in Iran.

    • nomy@lemmy.zipEnglish
      12·
      5 hours ago

      Did you seriously just claim theres no conservative & progressively dynamic in Iran?

      Have you been living under a rock the last 50 years?

    • Horsey@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 hours ago

      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.