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Posted By Admin On March 9th, 2026

Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei has been appointed as the third Supreme Leader of Iran following the death of his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during recent United States and Israeli airstrikes.

The decision was confirmed by Iran’s Assembly of Experts, the powerful clerical body responsible for selecting the country’s supreme leader.

Mojtaba Khamenei, born on September 8, 1969, in Mashhad, is a Shia cleric and politician and the second-eldest son of the late Iranian leader.

Raised during the turbulent years leading up to the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Mojtaba was nine years old when his father rose to prominence within the revolutionary movement.

He received early education in Sardasht and Mahabad before completing high school in Tehran.

He later pursued Islamic theological studies under the guidance of his father and prominent cleric Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi.

In 1987, he joined the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and served in the closing phase of the Iran–Iraq War between 1987 and 1988.

After the war, Mojtaba continued his religious education in Qom, where he studied to become a cleric and later served as a theological teacher at the Qom Seminary.

He has long been regarded as an influential figure behind the scenes in Iranian politics.

Reports have suggested he played a role in directing the Basij militia during the suppression of protests that followed Iran’s disputed 2009 presidential election.

Mojtaba Khamenei was sanctioned in 2019 by the United States Department of the Treasury as part of Washington’s policy targeting individuals closely linked to his father’s leadership network.

Analysts describe him as one of the most hardline figures among Iran’s principlist faction.

He is believed to maintain close relationships with conservative clerics and is viewed by some observers as supportive of Iran developing nuclear weapons, a position seen as more aggressive than his father’s previously stated stance.

The new supreme leader was married to Zahra Haddad-Adel in 2004 until her reported death in 2026.

The couple had three children.

Source: https://dailypost.ng/2026/03/09/everything-to-know-about-irans-new-supreme-leader-mojtaba-khamenei/