{"id":30285,"date":"2026-03-09T06:04:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T06:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=30285"},"modified":"2026-03-09T06:05:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T06:05:00","slug":"mojtaba-khamenei-son-of-ali-khamenei-selected-as-irans-new-supreme-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=30285","title":{"rendered":"Mojtaba Khamenei, son of Ali Khamenei, selected as Iran&#8217;s new supreme leader"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/english.news.cn\/20260309\/fcc7bcd10bbf45c282d0d7472ec1b8f4\/36e24a6f0406406dbd8bb7bca04e34a1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This undated file photo shows Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran&#8217;s new supreme leader. Mojtaba Khamenei, son of Ali Khamenei, was selected as Iran&#8217;s new supreme leader, Iran&#8217;s Assembly of Experts announced on Sunday. (Xinhua)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mojtaba Khamenei, son of Ali Khamenei, was selected as Iran&#8217;s new supreme leader, Iran&#8217;s Assembly of Experts announced on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement, the assembly confirmed Mojtaba Khamenei&#8217;s election as the country&#8217;s third supreme leader, citing &#8220;the decisive vote of the respected representatives&#8221; of the assembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In today&#8217;s extraordinary session, Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei &#8230; is appointed and introduced as the third leader of the sacred system of the Islamic Republic of Iran,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mojtaba Khamenei, born in 1969, is the son of Iran&#8217;s late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who was killed in the joint U.S.-Israeli strikes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The United States and Israel launched surprise airstrikes on Tehran and other Iranian cities on Feb. 28, killing Ali Khamenei, along with some of the leader&#8217;s family members, Iran&#8217;s senior military commanders, and civilians. Iran responded through several waves of missile and drone attacks targeting Israel and U.S. assets across the Middle East.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reference Link:- <a href=\"https:\/\/english.news.cn\/20260309\/fcc7bcd10bbf45c282d0d7472ec1b8f4\/c.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/english.news.cn\/20260309\/fcc7bcd10bbf45c282d0d7472ec1b8f4\/c.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This undated file photo shows Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran&#8217;s new supreme leader. Mojtaba Khamenei, son of Ali Khamenei, was selected as Iran&#8217;s new supreme leader, Iran&#8217;s Assembly of Experts announced on Sunday. (Xinhua) Mojtaba Khamenei, son of Ali Khamenei, was selected as Iran&#8217;s new supreme leader, Iran&#8217;s Assembly of Experts announced on Sunday. In a statement, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[512,2307,24266,1990,27554,1510,1360,27588,27761,27762],"class_list":["post-30285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sample-category","tag-america-2","tag-china-3","tag-geoplitics-2","tag-iran-2","tag-iran-war","tag-israel-2","tag-middle-east-5","tag-mojtaba-khamenei","tag-new-leaderrship","tag-supreme-leader","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30287,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30285\/revisions\/30287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}