Mojtaba Khamenei has been chose to replace his dead father as Iran’s new supreme leader – just days after Donald Trump dismissed him as a “lightweight.”
The Orange Manbaby, 79, demanded final approval on who became the next leader of Iran in the same way he handpicked Venezuela’s new president.
But the country’s Assembly of Experts has chosen Mojtaba Khamenei to replace his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as the country’s new supreme leader, state media reports.
The US President said he “refused to accept” a new Iranian leader who would continue Khamenei’s hard-line policies, claiming they would force the countries back to war “in five years.”
In an interview with a US news site, Trump said: “They are wasting their time. Khamenei’s son is a lightweight. I have to be involved in the appointment, like with Delcy [Rodriguez] in Venezuela.”
And Israel vowed to take out whoever was elected in the role after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed by joint airstrikes.
A statement from the Assembly of Experts was read aloud by the presenter on state TV which said: ““Despite the acute wartime conditions and the direct threats of the enemies against this popular institution, and despite the bombing of the offices of the Secretariat of the Assembly of Experts, which resulted in the martyrdom of several staff members and members of its security team, did not pause even for a moment in the process of selecting and introducing the leadership of the Islamic system.”
The presenter then shouted “Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Khamenei is the leader.”
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