Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has praised the appointment of Mojtaba Khamenei as the country\u2019s new supreme leader, calling the decision a reflection of national unity in the face of attacks by the United States and Israel.<\/p>\n
In a statement on Telegram, Pezeshkian said the choice strengthened the \u201cresilience of the Iranian people\u201d and said the new leader would guide the country through the conflict with \u201cwise leadership\u201d built on the foundation left by his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in the opening wave of recent attacks.<\/p>\n
Tehran\u2019s move is widely seen as a signal that Iran intends to maintain its hardline stance despite mounting pressure. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps appeared to underline that message, launching its first missiles under the new leadership and posting an image of a projectile captioned, \u201cAt Your Service, Sayyid Mojtaba.\u201d<\/p>\n
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has warned that any Iranian leader pursuing \u201cIsrael\u2019s destruction\u201d would be considered a legitimate target. U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham echoed that sentiment, saying it may only be \u201ca matter of time\u201d before Mojtaba Khamenei meets the same fate as his father.<\/p>\n
U.S. President Donald Trump declined to comment directly, telling reporters: \u201cWe\u2019ll see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has praised the appointment of Mojtaba Khamenei as the country\u2019s new supreme leader, calling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[4013,28,22022,33766,8360,2402,232336,232337,4011,232339,232338],"class_list":{"0":"post-512534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-brent-crude","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-energy-infrastructure","11":"tag-geopolitical-risk","12":"tag-global-markets","13":"tag-inflation","14":"tag-iran-conflict","15":"tag-middle-east-energy","16":"tag-oil-prices","17":"tag-oil-supply-disruption","18":"tag-wti-crude"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}