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Speaker 1: Today's biggest News from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with

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Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. Iran's new leader has a familiar

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Speaker 1: name and a familiar look. He's the son of the

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Speaker 1: old Supreme leader assassinated in Operation Epic Fury. Moshtebach Khamene

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Speaker 1: fifty six is the son of Ayatollah Ali Kamene, and,

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Speaker 1: according to reports from Iran, is as theocratically hardline as

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Speaker 1: his father. Support from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps helped

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Speaker 1: secure Moshtabar the job, but ordinary Iranians are already expressing

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Speaker 1: their descent. This video published to social media apparently shows

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Speaker 1: residents of Tehran's high rise buildings chanting death to Moshtabar,

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Speaker 1: death to dictator. In twenty twenty two, Iran's Morality police

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Speaker 1: beat to death a young woman who had been arrested

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Speaker 1: for failing to cover her head in public. That prompted

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Speaker 1: waves of protest and anger directed at Moshtebar himself, who

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Speaker 1: was seen as a behind the scenes enforcer for his

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Speaker 1: father and the regime. At the time, he was reported

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Speaker 1: to be in charge of military intelligence and the Basij

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Speaker 1: Volunteer militia, which enforces religious codes throughout the country. Like

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Speaker 1: his father, moshebar is a Shia Islamic cleric. He was

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Speaker 1: elevated to the rank of Ayatollah, the SA term for

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Speaker 1: high ranking theologian, and he's been chosen as Supreme leader

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Speaker 1: by a panel of senior leaders, despite the fact Iran's

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Speaker 1: Islamic Revolution was supposed to move the country away from

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Speaker 1: hereditary leadership and focus on choosing figureheads of impeccable religious qualities.

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Speaker 1: Moshebah Kameni's first job will be working out how Iran

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Speaker 1: best deploys its remaining ballistic missiles and suicide drones, while

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Speaker 1: coming up with a strategy to deal with the rage

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Speaker 1: of Iran's neighbours on the Arabian Peninsula, including the United

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Speaker 1: Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, who reacted with fury to

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Speaker 1: Iranian strikes on their cities and airports Over the weekend.

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Speaker 1: Iran's Prime Minister, Mohammad Pezeshkian apologized for striking the Gulf States,

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Speaker 1: saying Iran had only ever intended to attack American military

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Speaker 1: assets in the region. The Golf monarchies have reacted cautiously

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Speaker 1: so far, expressing anger but largely not withdrawing their ambassadors

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Speaker 1: or actually striking back at Iran. The United Arab Emirates

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Speaker 1: government denied an Israeli media report over the weekend that

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Speaker 1: the UAE had struck an Iranian desalination plant, declaring it

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Speaker 1: fake news. Overnight, Israel struck five Iranian oil facilities in

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Speaker 1: the Tehran region, prompting warnings from the Iranian Red Crescent

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Speaker 1: Society that residents of the capital should take precautions against

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Speaker 1: toxic smoke now filling disguise. We're covering this story live

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Speaker 1: front first thing tomorrow for a visit from our Media

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Speaker 1: Diary editor Steve Jackson, with an intriguing story about an

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Speaker 1: ABC star's very sweary social media appearance, plus the latest

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Speaker 1: travails of Kyle and Jackie. Oh that's right here. Tuesday morning,