
{"id":5347,"date":"2026-03-09T21:35:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T21:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/who-is-irans-new-supreme-leader-mojtaba-khamenei\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T21:35:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T21:35:22","slug":"who-is-irans-new-supreme-leader-mojtaba-khamenei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/who-is-irans-new-supreme-leader-mojtaba-khamenei\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Iran\u2019s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mojtaba Khamenei replaces his assassinated father Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.<\/p>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>A new supreme leader in Iran \u2013 Mojtaba Khamenei \u2013 has replaced his assassinated father.<\/p>\n<p>His selection sends a defiant message to the United States and Israel as they attack the country.<\/p>\n<p>So, who is Iran\u2019s new leader \u2013 and what does his appointment mean?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Tom McRae<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hassan Ahmadian \u2013 Associate professor at the University of Tehran<\/p>\n<p>Mehran Kamrava \u2013 Professor at Georgetown University in Qatar and director of the Iranian Studies Unit at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies<\/p>\n<p>Alex Vatanka \u2013 Senior fellow at the Middle East Institute in Washington, DC<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mojtaba Khamenei replaces his assassinated father Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. A new supreme leader in Iran \u2013 Mojtaba Khamenei \u2013 has replaced his assassinated father. His selection sends a defiant message to the United States and Israel as they attack the country. So, who is Iran\u2019s new leader \u2013 and what does his appointment mean? Presenter: &#8230; <a title=\"Who is Iran\u2019s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/who-is-irans-new-supreme-leader-mojtaba-khamenei\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Who is Iran\u2019s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}