IRGC Pushes to Install Khamenei's Son Mojtaba as Iran's Next Supreme Leader Amid Wartime Chaos

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is pushing to appoint Mojtaba Khamenei -- the son of the late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei -- as the country's next supreme leader, in a dynastic power grab that would transform the Islamic Republic's theocratic leadership into something closer to a hereditary monarchy. The first emergency meeting of the Assembly of Experts to select a successor was reportedly inconclusive, disrupted by Israeli airstrikes targeting the assembly itself. The IRGC's push for Mojtaba comes as U.S. officials say Iran can barely defend itself and as President Trump declares he wants a role in choosing the country's next leader -- creating a power vacuum being contested simultaneously from within and without.