Khamenei’s Son Takes Power in Iran as Trump Downplays Oil Spike

Iran named the son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as its new supreme leader and President Donald Trump called $100 oil a “small price to pay,” with neither side showing any sign of deescalating a war now entering its 10th day.

Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, won a “decisive vote” in Iran’s Assembly of Experts, the semi-official Fars news agency reported Sunday. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, one of Iran’s most powerful and feared organizations, pledged full obedience to the new leader in a statement.

Mojtaba Khamenei in 2020.

Photographer: Rouzbeh Fouladi/Middle East Images/AFP/Getty Images

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