Mojtaba Khamenei will replace his father Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as Iran’s new supreme leader, it has been confirmed. Ayatollah Khamenei, 86, was killed in a US-Israeli strike on his personal compound ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates(AP) — Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who assembled theocratic power in Iran over the decades as its top leader and sought to turn it into a regional powerhouse, bringing it into ...

The killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Feb. 28, 2026, set off the process of selecting a new supreme leader. It is only the second such transition in the Islamic Republic’s 47-year history and the ...

After the death of Iran’s longtime supreme leader, power has not simply passed to one individual. Analysts say a tightly ...

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in 2024.Majid Saeedi/Getty Images Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ruled the country since 1989 and has the final say on all matters of ...

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has died aged 86 following joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran, plunging the region into further instability. Donald Trump confirmed Khamenei was killed in the airstrikes overnight ...

Over the past three weeks, a wave of targeted Israeli strikes has decimated Iran’s top leadership, raising a critical question: who is now running Tehran as the war escalates? What began with the ...

Officials at the highest levels of the Iranian government say they don't know where Mojtaba Khamenei is and have no way to ...

FILE - In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks under a portrait of the late revolutionary founder ...