"Since the war, the Islamic Republic has been operating less as a hierarchy organized around a single dominant figure and ...

Officials at the highest levels of the Iranian government say they don't know where Mojtaba Khamenei is and have no way to ...

Iran's Assembly of Experts picked Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his late father as supreme leader, who was killed in the strikes that ignited the ongoing U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. Mojtaba Khamenei, a ...

Iran’s Assembly of Experts, an 88-member clerical body, announced on Sunday (March 8, 2026) night that it had chosen Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the former Supreme ...

US intelligence assesses that Iran’s new supreme leader is playing a critical role in shaping war strategy alongside senior Iranian officials, according to multiple sources familiar with the ...

Mojtaba Khamenei says Tehran will eliminate ‘enemy’s abuses of the waterway’ and guard its nuclear and missile programmes ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s supreme leader defiantly vowed Thursday to protect the Islamic Republic’s nuclear and missile capabilities, which U.S. President Donald Trump has sought to ...

WASHINGTON — Iran Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei hasn’t released an audio or video message since assuming power because his face was badly burned in Israeli airstrikes on Feb, 28, according to a ...

On Apr. 17, when Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi announced that the Strait of Hormuz would be reopened to commercial shipping, the backlash within Iran was immediate. Hardline commentators in ...