Trump says he is 'disappointed' that Mojtaba Khamenei became Iran's supreme leader
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DORAL, Florida, March 9 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he was "disappointed" that Iran named Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his slain father Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as the supreme leader of the country.
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Mojtaba Khamenei has been elected as Iran's next supreme leader by the Assembly of Experts, according to reports, succeeding his father Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
By Samia Nakhoul and Parisa HafeziDUBAI, March 9 (Reuters) - Iran's clerical leadership chose confrontation over compromise in appointing Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his father, Ali Khamenei, a move regional officials say is a direct rebuke to U.S.
Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei served in the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s where he developed close ties with the military services and with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Iran has named Ayatollah Seyed Mojtaba Khamenei as the country’s new supreme leader, according to state media. Mojtaba Khamenei is the second son of Ali Khamenei, who was killed at the start of the current U.S.-israel military operation against Iran.
Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of late Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei who has been appointed as the new head of the Islamic republic, is a discreet figure who offers continuity of his father's hardline leadership.
Iran has named Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the recently killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, as the Islamic Republic’s new supreme leader, according to a statement from the Assembly of Experts published by state media early Monday local time.
Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, is the third person to lead the Islamic Republic and the first example of hereditary succession since the overthrow of the Pahlavi monarchy in the 1979 revolution.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of Iran's late supreme leader, has been named his successor, Iranian state TV announced early Monday, as the war that began with his father
