Mojtaba Khamenei: Ayatollahs skrupelloser Sohn übernimmt das Regime

**From The Telegraph:**

Donald Trump claims the remnants of the Iranian regime are looking for an olive branch. The election of Mojtaba Khamenei as the new supreme leader suggests otherwise.

Khamenei, the second son of the late Ali Khamenei, who was killed in an air strike on Saturday, is a shadowy, hardline conservative figure with deep links to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

Having reportedly supplied the intelligence to take out one ayatollah Khamenei, the US is unlikely to look favourably on another one rising in his place.

And from the potentially new supreme leader’s perspective, the recent bombing campaigns have killed his father, mother, wife and son, while shattering its navy, missile depots and nuclear programme.

Given his background, he could hardly have seen the US as anything but an implacable enemy. But the events of recent days will have given a personal edge to that hatred.

Since he began bombing Iran on Saturday, Mr Trump has sounded uncertain about who or what would succeed the late ayatollah’s regime.

In Venezuela, where US special forces snatched Nicolás Maduro from his compound in early January, Delcy Rodríguez had been identified by the intelligence services as a figure who could guarantee stability while working with Washington.

Not so in Iran. Mr Trump has given little indication of what comes next beyond calling on the Iranian people to seize control of the government and noting that the late ayatollah’s potential successors were all dead.

What comes next is expected to be Mojtaba Khamenei, who on Sunday was elected by Iran’s most senior clerics as the next supreme leader.

**Read more here:** [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026/03/04/mojtaba-khamenei-ayatollah-son-iran-regime/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_reddit_khamenei-ayatollah-son-iran-regime/](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026/03/04/mojtaba-khamenei-ayatollah-son-iran-regime/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_reddit_khamenei-ayatollah-son-iran-regime/)

Mossad, CIA do the funni please.