2026-03-10
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The potential is he's going to last three hours or three decades.
He's in mortal danger
because the Israelis have said they will try to assassinate whoever was chosen.
Trump has been relatively, by his standards, quiet about condemning him since his appointment.
I imagine he's also looking for a way out of this war given where oil prices are.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's son has been named as Iran's new supreme leader.
So who is he and what does it mean for the war?
From the Guardian's Today in Focus, this is the latest with me, Lucy Hough.
I'm joined by Patrick Wintour, The Guardian's diplomatic editor.
Patrick, thanks so much for coming up to the studio.
So we are now 10 days into this war,
10 days since Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed in a US-Israeli airstrike.
His successor, his son, Mujtaba, has now been announced.
What do we know about him?
Well,
it's an extraordinary thing to think that we need another injection of unpredictability and uncertainty into this war but that is one element of his appointment
because I think there's actually only one video extant of Mujtaba's speaking in public and although he has been a huge power behind the throne for two decades as sort of deputy chief of staff inside the supreme leader's office so there's this contrast between knowing little about him in public but he is clearly incredibly influential privately.
MS.
Right, and he'd never held elected office or even really been in any public-facing senior position,