Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, was tapped to assume control of the country by Iran’s Assembly of experts, Iranian International reported Tuesday.
Motjaba is known for a staunch adherence to his father’s hardline conservatism, and has close ties to Iran’s notoriously brutal Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps military body, according to CNN.
An election is not necessarily something done by the people. What you’re thinking of is called “universal suffrage”.
He wasn’t elected, rumors are that the clerics were pressured to vote for the son of the supreme leader…
Well that’s something else, but it doesnt change the fact thaft an election can be a small group of people electing a nation leader.
Yeah.
Election of the pope.
Election of the chair.
Those elections are done by a small group of people.