The meeting that will appoint Ayatollah Khamenei's successor to lead Iran will be held in the next 24 hours
The Assembly of Experts, the forum that will appoint Iran's next supreme leader, the successor to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, will meet “within the next 24 hours”, the Iranian Fars news agency reported on Saturday, as reported by AFP and Agerpres.
The source of the claim is Hossein Mozafari, a member of the Assembly, who asked the population “to refrain from any speculation and the spreading of rumors on this subject”.
The succession procedure of Khamenei, killed last Saturday by the first American-Israeli strikes on Iran, was launched the very next day after the event. The Assembly of Experts has 88 members. Its headquarters in Tehran and the holy city of Qom in the south of the country were hit by the Israelis on Monday and Tuesday, respectively.
Israel has already announced that the next leader in Tehran will become “a target” in turn.
Until his appointment, the interim power in Iran is exercised by President Masoud Pezeshkian, the head of the judiciary, Golam Hossein Mohseni-Ejei, and the cleric Alireza Arafi, a member of the Assembly of Experts.
There was “a first appointment” of Mojtaba Khamenei, but that turned out to be only a preliminary meeting. Those who said that the appointment of the former ayatollah's son was reached were those from the Revolutionary Guard.
