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Iran president says post-Khamenei interim leadership council ‘started work’
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Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian addresses cabinet members, as they visit of the tomb of the late Iranian revolutionary leader ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in Tehran on January 31, 2026. (Handout/Iranian Presidency/AFP)
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian says an interim leadership council established after the killing of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has begun its work.
“The interim leadership council started its work… we will continue with all our strength along the path set by Imam Khomeinei,” the founder of the Islamic Republic, Pezeshkian says in a recorded video statement broadcast on state TV.
He adds that the Islamic Republic’s military “will forcefully crush the enemy’s bases”.
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