Mojtaba Khamenei has close ties with the #Iranian#Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and served in the armed forces during the Iran-Iraq war, according to the Economic Times.
Khamenei’s son-in-law, daughter, and grandchild were also killed, and his wife died two days later from injuries she sustained during the attack. On Sunday, #Trump told ABC that U.S. strikes had taken out the “second or third place” candidate for #successor.
A deeply personal view into the difficulties of finding out basic facts in wartime Iran, where information escapes only through spurts of data that manage to bypass the internet blackouts.