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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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.