As Nigerians continue to battle with the daily surge in the price of global oil, it is a new dawn in Iran after Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was reportedly killed in U.S.–Israeli strikes, was selected as his successor — a development that could prove both historic and controversial for the Islamic Republic.
Unlike his late father, the 56-year-old Mojtaba has spent most of his life away from the public eye. He has never held an official government position, delivered public speeches, or granted interviews, and only a handful of photographs and videos of him exist in the public domain.
Yet despite his low profile, Mojtaba has long been regarded as a powerful figure behind the scenes in Iran’s political establishment. U.S. diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks in the late 2000s described him as “the power behind the robes,”
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