According to two Iranian sources who spoke to Reuters on Wednesday, Mojtaba Khamenei, the influential son of Iran’s deceased Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, is still alive and is expected to succeed his father.
Plans for the funeral of the 86-year-old Khamenei, who was assassinated by Israeli forces on Saturday in the first assassination of a country’s top leader by bombing, were in jeopardy when further explosions erupted in Tehran. According to state television, the goodbye ritual was postponed. His body was supposed to lie in state in a large mosque in Tehran starting Wednesday evening. Israel and the United States continued their 24-hour attacks on Iran on Wednesday, a campaign that the senior US commander described as “ahead of the game plan.
Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, was not in Tehran when the strike that destroyed the leader’s compound and killed the elder Khamenei’s wife, another son, and several key military and leadership figures, according to two Iranian sources who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity. For the second time since the establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979, Iran stated the Assembly of Experts, which will choose the new leader, will make its announcement shortly.
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