Mojtaba Khamenei chosen as Iran’s supreme leader because he is ‘hated by the enemy’

Its website said Khamenei had previously delegated some of his responsibilities to Mojtaba, who it said had worked closely with the commander of the IRGC’s Quds Force and the Basij, a religious militia affiliated with the Guards, “to advance his father’s destabilising regional ambitions and oppressive domestic objectives”. Critics have ‌said Mojtaba lacks the clerical credentials to be ⁠supreme leader – Hojjatoleslam is a notch below the rank of Ayatollah, the position held by his father and Ruhollah Khomeini, who founded the Islamic Republic. Mehdi Karroubi, a ​moderate cleric who ran in the election, wrote a letter to Khamenei at the time objecting to what he alleged was Mojtaba’s role in supporting Ahmadinejad.

Author: Parisa Hafezi

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