Assembly of Experts
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The Assembly of Experts is the deliberative body of Iran empowered to appoint, supervise, and discharge the Supreme Leader of Iran. The assembly consists of 88 members who are directly elected by the
The Assembly of Experts is housed in the former Pahlavi-era Senate building in Tehran.
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Assembly of Experts' Secretariate in Qom (destroyed by an Israeli air strike on 3 March 2026)
Mojtaba Khamenei
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Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei is an Iranian Shia cleric and politician who has served as the third supreme leader of Iran since 2026. A member of the Khamenei family and the second son of second supreme l
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…Air Force struck the Assembly of Experts office building in Qom. Following the assassination of Ali Khamenei, the Assembly of Experts chose his son Mojtaba Khamenei to be a new Supreme Leader on 8 March 2026. The Assembly has never dismissed or even questioned the Supreme Leader. During the lengthy and unchallenged…
Portrait of Mojtaba Khamenei, unknown date
Khamenei (second from left) in 2024 with his three brothers, from left to right: Mostafa, Masoud, and Meysam
Khamenei (right) with Qasem Soleimani at a 2017 ceremony commemorating the father of Soleimani, in Mosalla, Tehran
Mojtaba Khamenei (right) in front of former president Ebrahim Raisi (center-left)