IRAN has appointed Mojtaba Khamenei as their new Supreme Leader, but who is he and can you get to the end of this article explaining it before it becomes irrelevant?
The son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who you only learned wasn’t the one who issued the Salman Rushdie fatwah when he died last week, Mojtaba Khamenei has largely kept a low profile which is handy for the reader trying to learn all about him against a deadline.
He fought against Iraq when they were the good guys and Iran were the bad guys, useful you’ve haven’t got time to think about that too much, and studied religion which will hopefully prove a comfort to him in these, his final days.
Controversy about whether Iran’s leader should be chosen for his religious standing rather than hereditary succession is expected to die down shortly along with its subject.
Accused of interfering in elections, which unlike his US counterpart Trump isn’t expected to be an issue long-term, Mojtaba is expected to be named Ayatollah in short order and to join his father as a martyr shortly after that.
He has never given any public speeches or interviews, a policy which observers do not expect to change in the limited time available, so 90 per cent of this article will remain unchanged in his obituary.
His leadership record is and will remain largely untested, and his hope of finding who is leaking his location to Israel intelligence is expected to end mid-sentence.
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