Son ‘frontrunner’ to succeed Khamenei

Mojtaba Khamenei DUBAI: Mojtaba Khamenei has emerged as frontrunner to succeed his late father as Iran’s supreme leader. The 56-year-old survived the US-Israeli aerial blitz of his country, which claimed the life of his father Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and a host of other senior leaders. Two Iranian sources told Reuters Mojtaba was not in Tehran during the strike that destroyed the supreme leader’s compound, and also claimed the lives of his wife, another son and a number of senior military...

By none@none.com (Reuters)