{"id":2181,"date":"2020-12-05T06:53:22","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T12:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=2181"},"modified":"2020-12-07T12:09:50","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T18:09:50","slug":"2181","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2020\/12\/05\/2181\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh my, it\u2019s finally happening.\u00a0 After years of denial of poor health and cancer, the Supreme Leader Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei prepares for his departure.\u00a0 But note that he gave power to his son and not another clerical figure. \u201cIranian journalist Mohamad Ahwaze reported the major political move on Twitter, citing sources in the country. Writing in Arabic, Ahwaze said Khamenei had handed power over to his son, Mojtaba Khamenei.\u201d\u00a0 The Assembly of Experts, supposedly charged with overseeing the Supreme Leader and selecting his successor, is not mentioned in this article.\u00a0 It has been rumored that they were slowing considering replacement options for Khamenei but none of the open sources said what Khamenei or the Assembly would do if the Leader were incapacitated.\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/fakhrizadeh-iran-1552586\">\u201cIran&#8217;s Supreme Leader Transfers Power to Son as Health Deteriorates,\u201d<\/a> Darragh Roche, Newsweek, December 5, 2020.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/iran-supreme-court-to-retry-three-men-sentenced-to-death-over-2019-protests\/30985440.html\">\u201cIran Supreme Court To Retry Three Men Sentenced To Death Over 2019 Protests,\u201d<\/a> RFE\/RL, December 5, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh my, it\u2019s finally happening.\u00a0 After years of denial of poor health and cancer, the Supreme Leader Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei prepares for his departure.\u00a0 But note that he gave power to his son and not another clerical figure. \u201cIranian journalist Mohamad Ahwaze reported the major political move on Twitter, citing sources in the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2020\/12\/05\/2181\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2819,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-update"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2819"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2181"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2197,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions\/2197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}