The second son of the late supreme leader keeps a low profile. But he's long been viewed as wielding his power behind the ...
In Iran, the supreme leader is the heart of a complex power-sharing theocracy and has final say over all matters of state. A look at the succession process.
The death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after almost 37 years in power raises paramount questions about Iran's future. The contours of a complex succession process began to take shape the ...
NPR's Steve Inskeep asks Iran expert Vali Nasr about what the appointment of a new Supreme Leader in Iran means for the country's future.
When millions of Iranians poured into the streets in 1979 to end the rule of the former shah, their revolution seemed to have put an end to the practice of passing power from father to son. Not so.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in a major attack on Iran launched by Israel and the United States, throwing the future of the Islamic Republic into doubt and raising the risk ...
The assassination of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the early hours of the war has raised a simple but enormously consequential question: Who will replace him?
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