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The Statesman Siliguri
|March 12, 2026
The death of Iran’s longtime supreme leader Ali Khamenei in US-Israeli air strikes aimed at crippling the country’s leadership, has triggered one of the most consequential political transitions in the history of the Islamic republic.
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The elevation of his son as the new Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, immediately raises a deeper political question about the nature of the revolutionary system created in 1979. A republic that once defined itself in opposition to hereditary monarchy now faces the uncomfortable optics of power passing from father to son.
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