{"id":343487,"date":"2026-03-14T17:33:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T16:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=343487"},"modified":"2026-03-14T17:33:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T16:33:06","slug":"mojtaba-khameneis-crowning-exposes-the-clerical-regimes-biggest-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/fake-opposition\/mojtaba-khameneis-crowning-exposes-the-clerical-regimes-biggest-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"Mojtaba Khamenei\u2019s Crowning Exposes the Clerical Regime\u2019s Biggest Lie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-343491 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/mojtaba-khamenei-reza-pahlavi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/mojtaba-khamenei-reza-pahlavi.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/mojtaba-khamenei-reza-pahlavi-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/mojtaba-khamenei-reza-pahlavi-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/mojtaba-khamenei-reza-pahlavi-749x420.jpg 749w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/mojtaba-khamenei-reza-pahlavi-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/mojtaba-khamenei-reza-pahlavi-696x390.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Three-minute read<\/span><\/i><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A regime that came to power by\u00a0hijacking\u00a0the Iranian people\u2019s uprising against monarchy has now arrived at hereditary rule. In 1979, Iranians rejected dynastic arrogance, unaccountable power, and the idea that a country could belong to a family. The clerical regime claimed it stood for the opposite. It wrapped itself in the language of justice, religion, sacrifice, and republican legitimacy. It denounced monarchy as corruption, decadence, and hereditary privilege.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Now the son takes the father\u2019s place.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">No clerical ritual can hide what that means. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/international\/article\/2026\/03\/09\/mojtaba-khamenei-a-new-supreme-leader-consolidating-the-power-of-iran-s-conservative-factions_6751245_4.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mojtaba Khamenei did not rise<\/a> through public trust, electoral legitimacy, merit, or a proven record in office. He rose because he was Ali Khamenei\u2019s son, because he had been groomed for years inside the regime\u2019s inner sanctum, and because the key levers of force, patronage, and security were already aligned behind him. This was not the triumph of a republic. It was the exposure of a dynasty.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NCRI Editorial: Iran and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Mojtaba_Khamenei?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Mojtaba_Khamenei<\/a>: Succession Without Legitimacy<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NPnYW3WEPT\">https:\/\/t.co\/NPnYW3WEPT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/2030984877793817069?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 9, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Never a Republic<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;335559738&quot;:160,&quot;335559739&quot;:80}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The truth is harsher than many admit: the Islamic Republic was never truly a republic. Now it has simply made that official.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A real republic rests on public sovereignty, accountability, rotation of power, and institutions stronger than any ruler or family. Iran never had that. Its elected offices always\u00a0operated\u00a0beneath an unelected core that monopolized the real decisions. Presidents came and went, parliaments changed factions, slogans shifted, and factions fought over access. But the structure of real power remained intact: the Supreme Leader, the security apparatus, the Guardian Council, the judiciary, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clingendael.org\/publication\/nepotism-islamic-republic-iran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">closed circle of loyalists<\/a> who governed from above and behind the scenes.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">For decades, the word \u201crepublic\u201d was packaging. It gave clerical absolutism a modern label. It allowed the regime to pretend it had reconciled divine authority with popular legitimacy. Mojtaba Khamenei\u2019s succession tears away that packaging. It does not destroy\u00a0a republic. It proves there was no republic to destroy.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tonight, the absolute clerical rule (Velayat-e Faqih) has effectively turned itself into a hereditary monarchy by placing Mojtaba Khamenei on the throne. <br \/>But it cannot save the shipwrecked vessel of religious fascism.<br \/>Once again, this regime, just like the monarchical\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oXigoVaOJ7\">pic.twitter.com\/oXigoVaOJ7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Maryam_Rajavi\/status\/2030806886321209597?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 9, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Nepotism as a System<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;335559738&quot;:160,&quot;335559739&quot;:80}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Mojtaba is not an exception. He is the purest expression of a regime already saturated with nepotism.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The\u00a0clerical dictatorship\u00a0has long functioned less as a public order than as a cartel of insiders. Senior officials repeatedly used\u00a0office\u00a0to distribute wealth, influence, protection,\u00a0and opportunity to relatives and loyal networks. Ali Shamkhani became one of the clearest symbols of this culture, with his <a href=\"https:\/\/home.treasury.gov\/news\/press-releases\/sb0215\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">family\u2019s business reach<\/a> and privileged access drawing constant attention. Across different presidencies, the pattern barely changed. Whether under so-called moderates, pragmatists, or hardliners, the state\u00a0remained\u00a0a mechanism for placement. Children, sons-in-law, brothers, nephews, and extended networks were pushed into profitable or influential positions. Even members of parliament treated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/inside-source-reports\/irans-kleptocracy-and-systematic-nepotism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">office as a pipeline<\/a> for family advancement and patronage.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The labels changed. The method did not.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This system rewarded proximity more reliably than competence, loyalty more than merit, and kinship more than public service. Mojtaba Khamenei stands at the summit of that culture. He is what happens when nepotism reaches its logical conclusion: the state itself becomes inheritance.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Iran\u2019s Kleptocracy and Systematic Nepotism<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Kleptocracy?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Kleptocracy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Nepotism?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Nepotism<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/economy?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#economy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EUP4cLVyOH\">https:\/\/t.co\/EUP4cLVyOH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1484397343931785219?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Why Monarchy Fails Iran<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;335559738&quot;:160,&quot;335559739&quot;:80}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This is why monarchy in any form should be rejected for Iran in definite terms.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Hereditary politics is corrupt at its core because it declares that blood can outrank merit. It says ancestry can substitute for service, scrutiny, and achievement.\u00a0It trains a nation to look toward households instead of institutions and toward heirs instead of citizens.\u00a0It turns politics into inheritance and the public into spectators.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In some countries, monarchy survives only because democratic institutions have reduced it to\u00a0ceremony. Iran has no such safeguards. It has no entrenched checks and balances capable of neutralizing <a href=\"https:\/\/historycollection.com\/12-reasons-why-the-shah-of-iran-lost-power\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hereditary power<\/a>. It has a long culture of impunity at the top and a weak tradition of forcing rulers to answer before the public. In that setting, hereditary politics is not symbolic. It is destructive. It protects incompetence, rewards manipulation, and invites criminality.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Iran has already paid too much for rulers who stood above scrutiny and above consequence. It should not be asked to surrender once again to the logic of heirs.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Iran News: State-Run Newspaper Says Reza Pahlavi and Monarchists Have Served Clerical Regime \u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EXfToXnGBe\">https:\/\/t.co\/EXfToXnGBe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; M. S. Khansari (@khansari_m) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/khansari_m\/status\/1909923392406315361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 9, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">No Rival Heirs<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;335559738&quot;:160,&quot;335559739&quot;:80}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">That is why the answer to Mojtaba Khamenei cannot be another\u00a0politics of surname.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Iran does not need one hereditary claimant replaced by another hereditary claimant in different packaging. It does not need more men treated as national options simply because they are someone\u2019s son. A modern country cannot be rebuilt on dynastic nostalgia any more than it can survive under clerical inheritance.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The issue is not which family should rule Iran. The issue is whether Iran will remain trapped in the idea that families should rule at all.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Bury the Principle<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;335559738&quot;:160,&quot;335559739&quot;:80}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Mojtaba Khamenei\u2019s succession should be treated as a moment of clarity. The regime has finally made official what it always was: not a republic, not a government of citizens, but a hereditary order disguised in religious slogans and republican decoration. It denounced monarchy while reproducing its essence. It disbanded the notorious SAVAK, only to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/how-irans-clerical-regime-rebuilt-savak-into-a-global-repression-machine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">absorb many of its cadres<\/a> into the brutal Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS).<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Iran should draw the only serious conclusion.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">No more sons of supreme leaders. No more sons of former rulers. No more politics of inheritance. No more mythology of bloodline. No more hereditary claims disguised as stability, continuity, or history.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The Islamic Republic has exposed itself. Iran should reject not only this dynasty, but the principle of dynasty itself.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three-minute read&nbsp; A regime that came to power by&nbsp;hijacking&nbsp;the Iranian people&rsquo;s uprising against monarchy has now arrived at hereditary rule. 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