Mohammad-Bagher Kharrazi

Mohammad-Bagher Kharrazi is a senior cleric in Iran and a relative by marriage of the Khamenei family. He has recently been in the news for claiming that Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian threatened to resign and that the new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, would accept this resignation, thereby revealing the internal political struggles among Iran's ruling factions.