Iran has reached ‘majority consensus’ on who will replace Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as the country’s next Supreme Leader.
Khamenei’s second son, Mujtaba Khamenei, 56, is expected to be appointed after receiving the support of the powerful Revolutionary Guard.
Member Ayatollah Muhammadmehdi Mirbaqer said that the Assembly of Experts, which determines the leader of the country, has more or less reached a decision.
On Saturday, a senior cleric said members would meet ‘within a day’ to decide on a leader.
Another member of the Assembly of Experts, Ayatollah Muhsin Heidari Alekasir, said a candidate was chosen based on the late Ayatollah’s advice to be ‘hated by the enemy’.
‘Even the Great Satan [US] A few days after Donald Trump said Khamenei’s son Mujtaba was ‘unacceptable’, Heidari Alekasir said he “mentioned his name” about the chosen successor.
choice for him.
