{"id":60867,"date":"2026-03-09T07:25:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T07:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=60867"},"modified":"2026-03-09T07:25:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T07:25:14","slug":"ayatollah-seyyed-mojtaba-hosseini-khamenei-becomes-third-leader-of-the-islamic-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/ayatollah-seyyed-mojtaba-hosseini-khamenei-becomes-third-leader-of-the-islamic-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei becomes third Leader of the Islamic Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60868\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Mujtaba-Khamenei.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Mujtaba-Khamenei.jpg 500w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Mujtaba-Khamenei-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Mujtaba-Khamenei-356x220.jpg 356w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>ISLAMABAD : Monitoring Desk \u2013 Iran\u2019s Assembly of Experts has chosen Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei as the third Leader of the Islamic Revolution.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei is the son of Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei who was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike on his office in Tehran on February 28, the first day of the ongoing US-Israeli military aggression against Iran.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In a statement late Sunday, the Assembly of Experts said that immediately after the martyrdom of Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, and despite wartime conditions, enemy threats, and a bombing of the Assembly\u2019s offices, it did not hesitate in selecting a new leader.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In line with its constitutional and internal duties, the Assembly swiftly took the necessary steps to convene an extraordinary session and appoint the successor, the statement added.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Following Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei\u2019s assassination, a three-member temporary leadership council\u2014including President Masoud Pezeshkian and Judiciary Chief Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei\u2014led the country until a new leader was chosen.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The United States and Israel launched their ongoing war of aggression against Iran on February 28. In addition to killing top military commanders, their strikes have killed more than 1,300 civilians, hitting residential areas, schools, and hospitals across the country.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD : Monitoring Desk \u2013 Iran\u2019s Assembly of Experts has chosen Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei as the third Leader of the Islamic Revolution. Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei is the son of Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei who was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike on his office in Tehran on February 28, the first day of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[197,8109,1250,5973,2356,5159],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60869,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60867\/revisions\/60869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}