Leader in Hiding: Iran ‘Picks New Ayatollah’ to Succeed Slain Khamenei After Meeting of Top Mullahs to Select Supreme Leader Bombed

Kasra Aarabi, director of IRGC research at United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), told The Sun Mojtaba Khamenei will be in the running—providing he’s hasn’t been wiped out. “We haven’t had the reports yet as to whether he is alive,” Kasra said. “But there is an invisible power structure there, an invisible state, that is really calling the shots. His sons are part of that. It has been designed alongside the IRGC to fill any vacuum and make sure continuity prevails rather than anything that could have a devastating blow to the regime. Keep an eye on Ayatollah Alireza Arafi. Keep an eye on his sons.”