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Rumors are flying about Iran’s Supreme Leader. Is he in a coma? Is he still alive? As people wonder, the nation’s religious leaders have already chosen his replacement . . .
From World Israel News. Tehran’s top Islamic clerics are preparing to replace Iran’s octogenarian supreme leader, according to a report published over the weekend.
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The report was released by Iran International, a Britain-based, Saudi-backed dissident Farsi satellite television network, and claims that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the 85-year-old supreme leader of the Islamic republic who has ruled since 1989, is suffering from a medical condition …
As such, the 60-member Assembly of Experts, a council of Tehran’s top state Shi’ite clerics, met on September 26th at the behest of Khamenei to select his successor …
After extensive debate and arduous deliberations, the Assembly of Experts ultimately voted unanimously to designate Khamenei’s son, 55-year-old Mojtaba Khamenei, as the country’s next spiritual leader.
A theology instructor for the Qom Seminary – Iran’s largest hawza, or theological school – Mojtaba is considered to be a hardline Islamist radical. …
According to the report, Mojtaba may succeed his father even prior to his death, given Khamenei’s reportedly deteriorating physical condition and diminishing capabilities. …
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(Excerpt from World Israel News. Photo Credit: Khamenei.ir, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=48128231)