If you’re just catching up today, the biggest news to come out of Tehran is that Iran has a new supreme leader, only its third in nearly half a century.
Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, will take over from his father, Ali Khamenei, who was killed in airstrikes during the initial US-Israeli bombardment of Tehran last weekend.
The younger Khamenei, a hard-line cleric like his father, has close ties to the country’s all-powerful paramilitary Revolutionary Guard.
Here’s a great explainer from Angus Holland on how the ayatollahs came to power – held on to it.
