Kriszta Satori on Nostr: Both Ali Khamenei and his predecessor, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, had criticised ...

Both Ali Khamenei and his predecessor, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, had criticised hereditary succession in the context of the Pahlavi monarchy, which was overthrown in the 1979 Islamic Revolution. An Iranian cleric once noted that the supreme leader had opposed the idea of naming his son as his successor.