When Iran’s theocracy is put to the test for the first time in fifty years, a leader who has never been properly tested assumes leadership. After his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was assassinated in the opening salvos of this war, Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, rose to prominence by ties and continuity.
However, as the Islamic Republic faces an existential struggle, Iran’s third supreme leader since its revolution in 1979 assumes leadership. The Assembly of Experts, a group of 88 Shia Muslim clerics, chose him, and large throngs of revolutionary foot troops instantly went to the streets to chant “Allahu Akbar, God is greatest, in celebration.
Every member of the security forces promised to serve their new commander-in-chief until their “last drop of blood. State TV displayed images of the first missiles fired in his honor, with the words “At your service, Seyyed Mojtaba” written on the side.
However, some of the numerous demonstrators who flocked to the streets in January to denounce his father as a “dictator” and demand his execution were heard yelling “Death to Mojtaba!” last night from the security of their apartments.
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