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The move could draw the ire of the US President, who has declared Mr Mojtaba Khamenei “unacceptable”.

Mr Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, is an influential if reclusive figure who has operated in the shadows of the empire of his father, who was killed Saturday in the US-Israeli strikes on Iran.

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