Iran has appointed the son of its late leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, as the country’s new supreme leader, despite threats from the United States and Israel to oppose him.
Reports say Iran’s clerical government’s Assembly of Experts convened to choose their next leader, nine days after US-Israeli strikes killed the former leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
They say the 56-year-old new leader was elected based on the decisive vote of the representatives of the Assembly of Experts.
Recall that US President Donald Trump has previously dismissed the younger Khamenei as a “lightweight” and he insisted again on Sunday that he should have a say in the new leader’s appointment.