The U.S.-Israeli attack that ended Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ’s iron-fisted rule of Iran also created a power vacuum in the Islamic Republic for the first time in decades, with a group of clerics convening to cast their votes on who would succeed him. While front-runners to succeed Khamenei have emerged, including the assassinated supreme leader's second son, Mojtaba Khamenei , the real power is now likely to be in the hands of the heavily-armed force that propped up Khamenei for decades: the

Tag-uri: Islam