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.

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    1 day ago

    I used the expression “claimed to desire” for a reason.

    What Trump (or, in fact anybody in his administration) says and reality are totally unrelated things which at the best of times are about as related as boats which pass each other in a thick fog.