Iran's Power Struggle: Hassan Khamenei Emerges as Potential Successor to Ayatollah Khamenei

The political crisis in Iran has also deepened after Khamenei's assassination in US and Israeli attacks. Khamenei may have set up a committee on crises after his death, but now many people are coming forward for his throne and to increase influence in Iran. The most important of them is Hassan Khamenei, the grandson of the late Ayatollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Iranian experts believe that Hassan may now play an important role in deciding the new Supreme Leader even though Hassan has not been seen much in public while Khamenei was alive. Of the 15 grandchildren of the late Ayatollah Khomeini, 53-year-old Hassan Khomeini is the most politically active. He is seen in the political corridors of Iran as a reformist figure, who has been raising his voice from better relations with Western countries to the rights of ordinary people and women. Hassan Rouhani, the former president of Iran, has also been in close communication with the southern countries of Iran during his tenure as the founder of the Islamic Republic of Tehran.