Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, was tapped to assume control of the country by Iran’s Assembly of experts, Iranian International reported Tuesday.
Motjaba is known for a staunch adherence to his father’s hardline conservatism, and has close ties to Iran’s notoriously brutal Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps military body, according to CNN.


Bets on how long he lives?
Pretty sure theres a polymarket for this now ☠️ Horror world
https://polymarket.com/event/iran-leader-end-of-2026
Currently they’re giving him a 43% chance of still being the leader of Iran by the end of the year. So I suppose his chance of surviving at all is a little higher than that…
This dude is gonna be dead in a month. If I were a degenerate gambler I’d bet on that.
Be the change you want to see in the world buddy.
The odds on the current Khamenei still being in charge end of the year are trending down… and pretty quickly too. Could just be settling after the official announcement.
I’m sure he’s now in some mile-deep bunker.