Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, was tapped to assume control of the country by Iran’s Assembly of experts, Iranian International reported Tuesday.
Motjaba is known for a staunch adherence to his father’s hardline conservatism, and has close ties to Iran’s notoriously brutal Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps military body, according to CNN.
An exterior threat can have a rally-around-the-flag effect. They hate the administration, but now they see an even bigger threat, a foreign threat. They might not want to rock the boat now.