It's official. Iran has named Mojtaba Khamenei as the country's new supreme leader, following the killing of his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in US-Israeli airstrikes on February 28, the BBC reports.
His selection was made by the Assembly of Experts, an 88-member body of elected senior clerics that has the authority to appoint the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic.
This is only the second time that the Assembly of Experts has elected a new supreme leader since the founding of the Islamic Republic in 1979.
The first was more than three decades ago, when Ali Khamenei was hastily elected after the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
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