The election help from the US President will certainly not have hurt him: Mojtaba Khamenei is “unacceptable” at the head of Iran, a “lightweight,” said Donald Trump a few days ago and claimed – whether he is serious about something like that, you never know – to be involved in the decision. The election of the Council of Experts was officially announced on Sunday: Mojtaba, the second eldest son of religious leader Ali Khamenei, who was killed in an airstrike on February 28, is the new “Rahbar”, the leader with whom all the threads of power in the Islamic Republic converge.
