In Karaj, a city near Tehran, one resident said he had not heard much about Mojtaba Khamenei before his appointment.<\/p>\n
“Now it will become clear whether Trump has done a deal with them or not. They need to target him,” the man in his 20s said.<\/p>\n
Another man said he believed “this means that nothing is going to change”.<\/p>\n
“It’s the same path, perhaps even worse,” he added. “I don’t think that he will last.”<\/p>\n
Earlier this week, US President Donald Trump said he had wanted to play a role in the selection of Iran’s new supreme leader, and that Mojtaba Khamenei was “unacceptable”.<\/p>\n
And just hours before the appointment was announced, Trump said that, without his approval, whoever took over was “not going to last long”.<\/p>\n
Israel also issued a warning before Ali Khamenei’s son was confirmed as the new leader, saying it would “continue to pursue every successor”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Karaj, a city near Tehran, one resident said he had not heard much about Mojtaba Khamenei before…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-466513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}