Tehran, March 4: Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei, son of Ayatollah Khamenei, has been elected as the next Supreme Leader of Iran, Israeli media reported.
He was chosen as Khamenei’s successor by Iran’s Assembly of Experts, reports added.
Khamenei, who ruled the country for 36 years, was killed in the joint US-Israeli strikes on February 28 when he was in his ‘compound’. Along with him, his daughter, son-in-law, and granddaughter were killed. Khamenei’s wife, Mansoureh Khojasteh Bagherzadeh, also died after succumbing to wounds sustained during the strikes.
Khamenei will be buried in the holy city of Mashhad, and a “large farewell ceremony” will be held in Tehran, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said in a post on Telegram. However, the date for the burial has not yet been disclosed.
Khamenei had no designated successor. A three-member Iran’s interim Leadership Council comprising – Ayatollah Alireza Arafi, President Masoud Pezeshkian, and Chief Justice Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei – had assumed the Supreme Leader’s responsibilities until the next successor was elected.
