The powerful clerical body known as the Assembly of Experts has selected Mojtaba Khamenei as Iran’s new Supreme Leader. Although he’s not a top-ranking cleric, he has deep ties to the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and has long been called “the power behind the robes.” Karim Sadjadpour, an Iran expert and senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace discusses the implications of the selection with The World’s Host Marco Werman.
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