Iran names Mojtaba Khamenei supreme leader
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Iran’s leadership crisis has taken a dramatic and deeply controversial turn after Mojtaba Khamenei, the little-known son of the late
A video and image posted online that appear to show Iran's former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei lying in rubble were created with artificial intelligence, according to Google's AI detection tool.
Iran stepped up attacks on Donald Trump by sharing a dark cartoon that linked the former US president to a deadly strike on a girls' school in Minab, showing Trump with a Nobel Peace Prize medal standing among bloodied school bags and shattered classroom rubble.
Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamanei may seek legitimacy by "showing defiance, endurance, and revenge," an Iran expert told Newsweek.
Khamenei’s financial agent, Ali Ansari, has circumvented sanctions, laundered money for the IRGC and the regime, and financed the IRGC and its proxy groups.