Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s Son Emerges as Leading Choice to Be His Successor | If Mojtaba Khamenei is chosen by Iran’s senior clerics, it may signal a victory for hard-liners, an analyst said.

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• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This is a huge warning about how much the Overton window can move…

  Abdolreza Davari, a politician close to Mojtaba Khamenei, said in public statements and in interviews with The New York Times that if Mr. Khamenei did succeed his father, he could emerge as a figure in the style of the Saudi Arabian leader Mohammed bin Salman.

  “He is extremely progressive and will move to sideline the hard-liners,” Mr. Davari said in a text message before the war. “See his appointment as a shedding of skin.”

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