Iran names Khamenei’s son, Mojtaba, as new supreme leader

Iran's Assembly of Experts on Sunday named Mojtaba Khamenei to replace his late father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as the country's new supreme leader, more than a week into the country's war with the United States and Israel.Mojtaba Khamenei has not been seen publicly since the start of the war, when the Israeli airstrike targeting the supreme leader’s offices killed his 86-year-old father. Also killed were the younger Khamenei’s wife, Zahra Haddad Adel. Mojtaba, a mid-ranking cleric with close ties to the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, had long been viewed by elements of Iran's ruling establishment as a potential successor to his father, who was killed in the joint US-Israeli strikes that triggered the ongoing armed conflict in the Middle East.
President Donald Trump said Iran’s next leader would not “last long” without the approval of the United States. “He’s going to have to get approval from us,” Trump told ABC News. “If he doesn’t get approval from us he’s not going to last long. We want to make sure that we don’t have to go back every 10 years, when you don’t have a president like me that’s not going to do it.” “I don’t want people to have to go back in five years and have to do the same thing again, or worse let them have a nuclear weapon,” he added.