Who is Iran's New Supreme Leader and What Does He Believe?

CONFLICTED

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History, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 10 March 2026

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Iran has chosen its new Supreme Leader: Mojtaba Khamenei, son of the recently assassinated Ayatollah Khamenei. Who is he? What does he believe? And most importantly, is his coming to power the fulfilment of ancient prophecy? Aimen and Thomas discuss: Mojtaba's youth and his experience fighting in the Iran-Iraq War as a 17 year old How he became his father's primary gatekeeper, and how he used this to amass great power and wealth Mojtaba's self-belief: that he is "the Khorasani", a long-expected End Times figure in Shia eschatology The long story of Islamic apocalypticism and how the Islamic Republic has used medieval prophecies to justify its ambitions Join the Conflicted Community here: ⁠⁠https://conflicted.supportingcast.fm/⁠⁠ Find us on X: ⁠⁠https://x.com/MHconflicted⁠⁠ And Facebook: ⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/MHconflicted⁠⁠ And Instagram: ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/conflictedpod⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit ⁠⁠megaphone.fm/adchoices⁠⁠ Conflicted is a Message Heard production. Executive Producers: Jake Warren & Max Warren. Produced and edited by Thomas Small. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.9	Hello, dear listeners.
0:31.9	Welcome back to Conflicted.
0:33.0	I'm here with Aman.
0:33.7	Amen, hello.
0:35.1	Hi, everyone.
0:42.3	Don't worry, the Oracle of Arabia is safe and sound and continuing to forecast the doom of Arabia from here. Amen, who do you think said this around about 1975?
0:47.3	Quote, Islam proclaims monarchy and hereditary succession wrong and invalid. When Islam first appeared in Iran,
0:58.0	the Byzantine Empire, Egypt, and Yemen, the entire institution of monarchy was abolished.
1:06.0	Who do you think wrote that? Ali Hamanei. What makes that ironic, my dear friend? That his son became his
1:15.0	successor? Just this morning, it was announced officially that members, hardline members, within the
1:23.4	regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran, have anointed Mabha-Kamaneh the second son of the now
1:29.8	deceased former supreme leader Ali Khamane, supreme leader. So, Amin, it seems, despite its
1:37.2	revolutionary foundations, that Iran is becoming a hereditary monarchy once again.
1:43.5	Exactly.
1:49.0	It's becoming another Syria, more importantly, another North Korea. All of these revolutionary kind of ideals always descend, you know, into monarchy,
1:57.8	into nepotism, into self-serving, you know, leadership.
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