Mojtaba Khamenei, son of ayatollah killed in U.S.-Israeli strikes, named Iran’s new supreme leader, state media reports

Despite what little support there might be for Iran’s new supreme leader, without regime change in Iran, leaders would presumably maintain the same “iron grip on control through the institutions of power,” Ali said.

The Assembly of Experts last convened to select a new leader in 1989, when it chose the elder Khamenei. The new leader is required to be a man and an Islamic cleric under Iranian law