With the ashes of President Ebrahim Raisi’s helicopter still smoldering, questions are swirling about the future of Iran’s leadership and the iron grip of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

Raisi, a notorious hardliner with blood on his hands from his involvement in crimes against humanity, was widely considered to be Khamenei’s handpicked successor. With Raisi out of the picture, Khamenei finds himself in a precarious position. Now the 85-year-old Supreme Leader must scramble to find a suitable replacement, one who can maintain the regime’s oppressive rule and keep growing dissent in check.

Despite Khamenei’s alleged opposition to hereditary rule, as reported by Reuters, insiders suggest that his son Mojtaba Khamenei is the frontrunner to inherit his father’s position. However, a source close to Khamenei’s office suggests that the Supreme Leader does not want his son to take over.

“Khamenei has indicated opposition to his son’s candidacy because he does not want to see any slide back towards a system of hereditary rule in a country where the US-backed monarchy was overthrown in 1979,” the Iranian source said.

Furthermore, Mojtaba’s ascension to power could prove to be a double-edged sword for the regime. His close ties to the brutal Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and his role in the bloody crackdown on protesters in 2009 have made him a deeply unpopular figure among the Iranian people, according to the report.

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