{"id":54504,"date":"2024-05-20T09:28:27","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T09:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/20\/what-to-know-about-mohammad-mokhber-irans-acting-president\/"},"modified":"2024-05-20T09:28:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T09:28:28","slug":"what-to-know-about-mohammad-mokhber-irans-acting-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/20\/what-to-know-about-mohammad-mokhber-irans-acting-president\/","title":{"rendered":"What to Know About Mohammad Mokhber, Iran\u2019s Acting President"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/05\/19\/multimedia\/19iran-crash-mokhber-lztg\/19iran-crash-mokhber-lztg-facebookJumbo.jpg?fit=1050,550&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"What to Know About Mohammad Mokhber, Iran\u2019s Acting President\" title=\"What to Know About Mohammad Mokhber, Iran\u2019s Acting President\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">With the death of President Ebrahim Raisi, Iran\u2019s first vice president, Mohammad Mokhber, becomes acting president. Mr. Mokhber is a conservative political operative with a long history of involvement in large business conglomerates closely tied to Iran\u2019s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In a statement on Monday, Mr. Khamenei said that Mr. Mokhber must work with the heads of the legislature and judiciary to hold elections for a new president within 50 days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Vice presidents in Iran are typically low profile, operating more as players within the government than as public figures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIran\u2019s vice presidents have traditionally not been contenders to succeed their bosses,\u201d said Robin Wright, a joint fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Wilson Center in Washington. \u201cThe bigger question,\u201d she added, \u201cis who will the regime allow to run for the office.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Mokhber is around 68 years old and became first vice president in August 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">One of Mr. Mokhber\u2019s relatively few high-profile appearances came when he and three other senior Iranian officials went to Moscow in <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/exclusive-iran-agrees-ship-missiles-more-drones-russia-defying-west-sources-2022-10-18\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">October 2022<\/a> to complete a sale of Iranian drones and ballistic missiles to Russia, for use in the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Raisi chose him as vice president after Mr. Mokhber held senior positions in some of Iran\u2019s most powerful organizations, including the Mostazafan Foundation, Sina Bank and Setad, a conglomerate entirely controlled by Ayatollah Khamenei that has billions of dollars in assets and was involved \u2014 not entirely successfully \u2014 in <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2021\/08\/19\/iran-government-mismanagement-compounds-covid-19-crisis\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">efforts<\/a> to make and distribute a Covid-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">All three organizations are part of an opaque network of financial entities that are tied to the Iranian state, although they are not directly state-owned. They are also connected to projects that are priorities for the supreme leader and his inner circle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Leily Nikounazar<!-- --> contributed reporting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/20\/world\/middleeast\/iran-mohammad-mokhber.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the death of President Ebrahim Raisi, Iran\u2019s first vice president, Mohammad Mokhber, becomes acting president. Mr. Mokhber is a conservative political operative with a long history of involvement in large business conglomerates closely tied to Iran\u2019s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. In a statement on Monday, Mr. Khamenei said that Mr. Mokhber must work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/05\/19\/multimedia\/19iran-crash-mokhber-lztg\/19iran-crash-mokhber-lztg-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17060,21116,13248,53942,2627],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54504"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54506,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54504\/revisions\/54506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}