{"id":54303,"date":"2026-03-08T17:43:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T22:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=54303"},"modified":"2026-03-08T17:43:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T22:43:29","slug":"mojtaba-khamenei-named-irans-new-supreme-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=54303","title":{"rendered":"<h1>Mojtaba Khamenei named Iran\u2019s new supreme leader<\/h1>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54304\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-08-at-6.42.38-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"616\" height=\"825\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-08-at-6.42.38-PM.png 616w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-08-at-6.42.38-PM-224x300.png 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p data-start=\"432\" data-end=\"490\">Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been named as his successor as Iran\u2019s supreme leader.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"432\" data-end=\"490\">Ali Khamenei led Iran from 1989 until his death during the opening wave of US-Israeli strikes on Tehran on February 28.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"432\" data-end=\"490\">Iran\u2019s Assembly of Experts, tasked with vetting and selecting the supreme leader, announced on Monday that Mojtaba Khamenei had been chosen after\u00a0<em>\u201cprecise and extensive deliberations.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Assembly called on\u00a0<em>\u201cthe noble nation of Iran, especially the elites and intellectuals of the seminaries and universities, to pledge allegiance\u201d<\/em>\u00a0to the new leader tasked with advancing the Islamic system of government that replaced the shah after the 1979 revolution.<\/p>\n<p>____<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/634203-khamenei-son-new-ayatollah\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/634203-khamenei-son-new-ayatollah\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}