New in PJ Media: The Islamic regime is still in power in Iran, and that’s bad news for the Iranian people and the world at large. There is, however, good news: It is not at all clear who is in charge of the Islamic Republic of Iran at this point, and that could well herald […]

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; […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]