Who is Mojtaba Khamenei, the man in line to become Iran’s next Supreme Leader?

Mojtaba Khamenei was reportedly ruled out as a successor by his father (Picture: Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

When Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in one of the first missile strikes launched by the US and Israel in their war on Iran, he was 86 years old and in poor health.

So it’s likely top officials in the country already had succession plans in place in case of his demise – even if they probably didn’t predict how it would happen.

But the intriguing pick...