Everything to know about Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei

Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei has been appointed arsenic the 3rd Supreme Leader of Iran pursuing the decease of his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during caller United States and Israeli airstrikes.

The determination was confirmed by Iran’s Assembly of Experts, the almighty clerical assemblage liable for selecting the country’s ultimate leader.

Mojtaba Khamenei, calved connected September 8, 1969, successful Mashhad, is simply a Shia cleric and person and the second-eldest lad of the precocious Iranian leader.

Raised during the turbulent years starring up to the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Mojtaba was 9 years aged erstwhile his begetter roseate to prominence wrong the revolutionary movement.

He received aboriginal acquisition successful Sardasht and Mahabad earlier completing precocious schoolhouse successful Tehran.

He aboriginal pursued Islamic theological studies nether the guidance of his begetter and salient cleric Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi.

In 1987, helium joined the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and served successful the closing signifier of the Iran–Iraq War betwixt 1987 and 1988.

After the war, Mojtaba continued his spiritual acquisition successful Qom, wherever helium studied to go a cleric and aboriginal served arsenic a theological teacher astatine the Qom Seminary.

He has agelong ...