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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.

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[–] comador@lemmy.world 3 points 49 minutes ago

Incoming bombs on the new surpreme leader in 5...4...3...

[–] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 38 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Khomeinei, then Khamenei...I thought it would be something like Khemienei next.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Khomeinei

First one was Khomeini.

[–] BeanGoblin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 58 points 2 hours ago
[–] canadian_commie@lemmy.world 20 points 2 hours ago

Is the USA tired of winning yet? The rest of us would like to resume life as normal please.

[–] RandAlThor@lemmy.ca 81 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

Is that the regime change Trump and Netanyahoo wanted?

[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 18 points 2 hours ago

They wanted monarchy. They've received monarchy

[–] venusaur@lemmy.world 10 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Trump just wants to have his own Zero Dark Thirty moment.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 22 minutes ago

Nero Dork Turdy

[–] Triumph@fedia.io 8 points 2 hours ago

That's the name of his underpants.

[–] maplesaga@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago
[–] SaltySalamander@fedia.io 20 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Bets on how long he lives?

[–] acantharea@lemmy.world 19 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Pretty sure theres a polymarket for this now ☠️ Horror world

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

https://polymarket.com/event/iran-leader-end-of-2026

Currently they're giving him a 43% chance of still being the leader of Iran by the end of the year. So I suppose his chance of surviving at all is a little higher than that...

[–] errer@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

This dude is gonna be dead in a month. If I were a degenerate gambler I’d bet on that.

[–] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 56 minutes ago* (last edited 55 minutes ago)

Be the change you want to see in the world buddy.

The odds on the current Khamenei still being in charge end of the year are trending down... and pretty quickly too. Could just be settling after the official announcement.

[–] RandAlThor@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 hours ago

I'm sure he's now in some mile-deep bunker.