{"id":95218,"date":"2026-03-04T00:36:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T00:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/ayatollahs-son-mojtaba-khamenei-emerges-as-front-runner-to-succeed-slain-supreme-leader\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T00:36:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T00:36:01","slug":"ayatollahs-son-mojtaba-khamenei-emerges-as-front-runner-to-succeed-slain-supreme-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/ayatollahs-son-mojtaba-khamenei-emerges-as-front-runner-to-succeed-slain-supreme-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayatollah\u2019s son Mojtaba Khamenei emerges as front-runner to succeed slain Supreme Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran&#8217;s Assembly of Experts is reportedly deliberating on Mojtaba Khamenei, son of the Supreme Leader, as his successor, with the IRGC pushing for his appointment. While Mojtaba is the front-runner, some clerics express reservations due to potential targeting by the US and Israel. The selection process is ongoing amid heightened tensions.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran&#8217;s Assembly of Experts is reportedly deliberating on Mojtaba Khamenei, son of the Supreme Leader, as his successor, with the IRGC pushing for his appointment. While Mojtaba is the front-runner, some clerics express reservations due to potential targeting by the US and Israel. The selection process is ongoing amid heightened tensions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":95219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}