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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei transferred his powers to his son due to his deteriorating health, according to cross sources.
The US magazine “News Week” said today, Saturday, December 5, that Khamenei transferred his powers to his son with growing concerns about his deteriorating health, while Iran faces mounting tensions with Israel and the United States.
Iranian journalist Muhammad Majeed, in a tweet on “Twitter,” citing sources in the country, indicated that Khamenei handed over power to his son Mojtaba Khamenei, who oversees the security and intelligence services in Iran.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was scheduled to meet with Khamenei on Friday, but the meeting was canceled due to Khamenei’s deteriorating health, according to the Iranian journalist.
Now: Iranian sources speak of the deterioration of the health of the Iranian leader, Khamenei, since last night, and confirm that those close to Khamenei are very afraid this time because of Khamenei’s state of health. pic.twitter.com/aiMDuEigDM
– M.Majed محمد مجيد (@MohamadAhwaze) December 5, 2020
And in the case of Khamenei’s death, the “Iranian Revolutionary Guard” will take full control of the country so that the Assembly of Experts can elect a leader, according to a previous report in the British newspaper Financial Times.
Ali Khamenei was born in the Iranian city of Mashhad in 1939, was arrested in Iran and then exiled there several times between 1970 and 1979 due to his political activities.
He contributed to Ayatollah Khomeini’s rise to power and believed in Wilayat al-Faqih, and was President of Iran from October 13, 1981 to August 3, 1989.
He did not reach the position of Supreme Leader until after a constitutional amendment that allowed the mujtahid to assume the leadership after it was the monopoly of the jurists, and he held the position from July 4, 1989 after Khomeini.
The nominees to succeed Khamenei are limited to the death of his son Mojtaba, who is 51 years old, and who is continuing advanced religious studies at the Qom religious seminary, which gives him the high-ranking cleric status necessary to perform the role of supreme leader, according to the “Financial Times”.
The British newspaper quoted one of his relatives as saying that Mojtaba “has a similar mentality to his father, and knows the political, military and economic problems” and has “good relations with the Revolutionary Guard.”
Another potential candidate is Ibrahim Raisi, the hardline judiciary leader who lost the 2017 presidential election to Rouhani.
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