Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had opposed the idea of his son Mojtaba succeeding him, but the country's powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) ultimately pushed the younger Khamenei's name for the position after his father was killed in the February 28 US-Israeli airstrikes, according to a report by the New York Post.
The report said Khamenei had made his opposition clear in his will.
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