Mojtaba Khamenei, who could succeed his father as supreme leader of Iran, is a target of anger in women’s rights demonstrations
As Iranians take to the streets to protest the country’s strict Muslim dress code, they have chanted for the death of a man who once wielded power in secret and now has a growing public profile—Mojtaba Khamenei, son of the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader.
Mr. Khamenei, 53 years old, has no official government position. But U.S. and Iranian officials have said he is in charge of his father’s business empire, and is influential in appointing and sometimes overseeing key parts of Iran’s security apparatus, which has come under renewed scrutiny following
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