After Mojtaba Khamenei is selected as Iran’s third Supreme Leader, the Foreign Ministry writes on X, “The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.”
“Mojtaba Khamenei’s hands are already stained with the bloodshed that defined his father’s rule. Another tyrant to continue the Iranian regime’s brutality.”
Israel killed Khamenei’s father, who had been supreme leader since 1989, on the first day of the US-Israeli campaign against Iran. Israel has said that it would target whoever succeeded the elder Khamenei.