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Iran’s New Supreme Leader Surfaces (Sort of) With a Chilling Message

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New in PJ Media: Mojtaba Khamenei, the new supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, still hasn’t been seen in public since he was named to his exalted new position. Reuters reported that “three people close to his inner circle” said that the world’s most prominent nepo baby was severely injured in the airstrike that killed […]

Mojtaba Khamenei, If Alive and Not Incapacitated, Is More Dangerous Than His Father

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Jaber Rajabi was once high up in the Iranian regime, a foreign policy advisor to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad when the latter was president. But he became disaffected and ultimately rejected fanatical Islam, becoming a defector from the Islamic Republic. He now lives in exile. He was recently interviewed by the Jerusalem Post. Rajabi knew Mojtaba Khamenei well; […]

Mojtaba Khamenei Heralds the End of the Islamic Republic

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Against the wishes of both Ayatollah Khomeini and his successor Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Mojtaba Khamenei has been elected by the Assembly of Experts as the new supreme leader. He is widely reported to be comatose or dead; even if these reports prove to be true, his rise to power signals the transformation of a revolutionary […]

Cardboard Khamenei

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Iran’s supreme leaders used to be made of stronger stuff. With so much AI material circulating nowadays, it was easy to assume that the photos were fake, but they apparently were real. Only Mojtaba Khamenei, the new head of Iran’s Islamic regime, was slightly less than real. Photos began circulating Tuesday of Iranians straight-facedly presenting a large cardboard […]

The New Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, Figlio Di Papà, and His Vast Fortune

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Mojtaba Khamenei is the 56-year-old son of Ayatollah Khamenei, the late unlamented leader of Iran who recently proved, as tyrants often do, that “nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.” Daddy’s little boy even in his mid-50s, Mojtaba is has just been named to succeed his father. Mojtaba has one thing in […]

Iranian Mullahs Boycott Meeting to Anoint Khamenei’s Son, Will Pick New Supreme Leader Soon

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My latest in PJ Media is a VIP article. I am happy to be able to offer you a 5% discount on becoming a VIP member at PJ Media. Just enter the code SPENCER when you sign up here. Just a few days ago, it looked as if the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s son, Mojtaba Khamenei, was set to […]

The Islamic Republic of Iran Chooses a New Leader, But He May Not Be the One in Charge

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My latest in PJ Media is a VIP article. I am happy to be able to offer you a 5% discount on becoming a VIP member at PJ Media. Just enter the code SPENCER when you sign up here. The forces of freedom won a major victory when the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah […]

Meet the New Boss, Worse Than the Old Boss

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Iran reportedly picks a brutal hardliner as the new supreme leader. The first attempt the surviving rulers of the Islamic Republic of Iran made to replace their fallen supreme leader, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, didn’t quite go as planned. Fox News reported Tuesday that “Israeli forces struck an Iranian Supreme Council gathering on Tuesday as the group […]

Iran: Khamenei’s hardline son Mojtaba Khamenei chosen as new supreme leader

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Mojtaba Khamenei “has been a bete noire of democratic movements at least since 2009 when he was rumored to have helped orchestrate the repression.” The Islamic regime is going to fight to survive harder than ever. “From shadow to power: who is Mojtaba Khamenei?,” by Negar Mojtahedi, Iran International, March 4, 2026: Iran’s clerical body, […]

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