Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's son Mojtaba was chosen by Iran's Assembly of Experts to succeed his late father as supreme leader, ...

President Donald Trump said last week that Mojtaba Khamenei would be "unacceptable," and Israel has vowed to target whoever ...

Supreme leadership over Iran, currently the most dangerous office in the world, now seems to be a hereditary affair. The ...

Opponents of the government, however, worried the new supreme leader, a son of the recently killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, ...

DUBAI, March 9 (Reuters) - Iran's clerical leadership chose confrontation over compromise in appointing Mojtaba Khamenei to ...

Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei served in the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s where he developed close ties with the military services ...

The U.S. sanctioned Mojtaba Khamenei for representing his father to advance his "destabilizing regional ambitions and ...

US president, who had warned against selecting Mojtaba Khamenei to lead Iran, says new supreme leader may not ‘last’.

The second son of the late supreme leader keeps a low profile. But he's long been viewed as wielding his power behind the scenes, from crushing dissent to influencing presidential elections.

Mojtaba Khamenei, a mid-ranking cleric with influence inside Iran's security forces, had been seen as a frontrunner leading ...

"The Iranians are showing defiance by choosing the son of Khamenei," a former diplomat told CNBC.

On the day Iran announced Mojtaba Khamenei as its Supreme Leader, some neighbourhoods in Tehran, crowds loyal to the Islamic Republic gathered under the night sky shouting "Allahu Akbar" -- God is ...