Guess who's the top pick to replace Ayatollah Ali Khamenei??

[herding cats]

His son. Who's already been doing much of the work involved in the roll for a while now. He's just as hardline and repressive as his father.

Trump said they killed all the people in line to take over the government. I'm sure the slated successor and son of the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who was actively being groomed to become the next supreme leader and continue his father's legacy just slipped his mind?!

"He was slated to become the successor for a long time,” Mr. Nasr said, “but for the past two years, it seemed to have dropped off from the radar. If he is elected, it suggests it is a much more hard-line Revolutionary Guard side of the regime that is now in charge.”

Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, is an influential if reclusive figure who has operated in the shadows of the empire of his father, who was killed on Saturday in the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran.

Mr. Khamenei is known for having close ties to the Revolutionary Guards. The Guards, according to the three officials, pushed for his appointment, arguing that he had the qualifications needed to steer Iran in this time of crisis.
“Mojtaba is the wisest pick right now because he is intimately familiar with running and coordinating security and military apparatuses,” said Mehdi Rahmati, an analyst in Tehran. “He was in charge of this already.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/world/middleeast/iran-mojtaba-khamenei-successor.html?unlocked_article_code=1.QlA.qfNm.PcfhYTEeySqj&smid=url-share