Khamenei’s son Mojtaba is alive and favoured to succeed him, Iranian sources say

Mojtaba Khamenei, the powerful son of Iran’s slain Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, is alive and favoured to emerge as his father’s successor, two Iranian sources told Reuters on Wednesday.

Even as new explosions rang out in Tehran, huge crowds of mourners were expected in the streets later on Wednesday to grieve the elder Khamenei, 86, killed by Israeli forces in the first assassination of a nation’s top ruler by airstrike.

The United States and Israel pressed on with their round-the-clock...