Who is Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran’s potential new Supreme Leader?

“If Mojtaba does become supreme leader, you will see him being packaged in this manner,” predicts Jason Brodsky, Policy Director at the United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) think tank. “If he is indeed elected leader, Mojtaba will not be the MBS of Iran's regime. He will likely continue to carry the mantle of his father's hardline legacy as he's been marinating in it for years and was propelled by it,” he explained on X, “his career is soaked in blood and he's been marinating in Khomeinist thinking his entire life.” According to UANI’s Saeid Golkar and Kasra Aarabi, Mojtaba fought in the 27th Mohammad Rasulullah Division under the leadership of “the IRGC’s Ahmad Motevaselian, a profoundly anti-Semitic individual and one of the founders of Lebanese Hezbollah,” and as part of the Habib Battalion, “made up of the most radical right Islamists, most of whom would later form the core of the regime’s security and intelligence bodies.”