{"id":10626,"date":"2026-03-09T09:17:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T09:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/10626\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T09:17:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T09:17:14","slug":"irans-irgc-backs-mojtaba-khamenei-as-new-supreme-leader-islamic-revolutionary-guard-corps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/10626\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s IRGC backs Mojtaba Khamenei as new supreme leader | Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/video\/newsfeed\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NewsFeed<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__subhead u-inline \">Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has pledged allegiance to Mojtaba Khamenei, the country\u2019s newly-elected supreme leader. While some Iranians have celebrated, many are dismayed the 56-year-old cleric, accused of human rights abuses, has ascended to the country\u2019s highest office.<\/p>\n<p>Published On 9 Mar 20269 Mar 2026<\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<p>plus2googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NewsFeed Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has pledged allegiance to Mojtaba Khamenei, the country\u2019s newly-elected supreme leader. While&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[34,46,49,87,4308,88,73],"class_list":{"0":"post-10626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran","8":"tag-iran","9":"tag-islamic-revolutionary-guard-corps","10":"tag-middle-east","11":"tag-newsfeed","12":"tag-protests","13":"tag-show-types","14":"tag-us-israel-war-on-iran"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116198470037215920","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}