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Iran’s new Supreme Leader is a thorn among the brambles

Mojtaba Khamenei has come out warring following the death of his late father, reiterating the Islamic world’s problem with much of the English speaking world, and further afield. Besides calling for revenge on the annihilation of Ali Khamenei, he says that Iranians will feel the warmth of his new rule.

It’s unlikely. He sits in place, so far from the ordinary concerns of Iranians, who are less likely to be combative with the rest of the wider world over such matters that mean so much to Islamic scholars, such as Western media or attention to academic matters that vary from the doctrinal dogma of the ruling elite that they’ve got to love.