Member of Iran’s Assembly of Experts Ali Moallemi, charged with choosing Iran's new Supreme Leader, said picking Ali Khamenei’s successor “won’t take long,” Iran’s ISNA news agency reported on Tuesday.
Iran on Sunday announced transition plans following the killing of Khamenei in a joint Israeli-U.S. attack of unprecedented scale.
The plans include the formation of an interim leadership council including the president, the head of the judiciary and a jurist from the Guardian Council, the body that oversees legislation and vets electoral candidates.
President Masoud Pezeshkian, 71, is one of three members of the interim council leading the country until a new supreme leader is elected. The reformist heart surgeon-turned-politician took office in June 2024 after his predecessor died in a helicopter crash.
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