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Iranian leadership council met to discuss selection of new supreme leader, state media reports
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIranian state television reports that a leadership council in the country met and discussed how to hold a meeting of the country’s Assembly of Experts, which will select the nation’s new supreme leader, after Israel and the US killed the former supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, last Saturday.
The leadership council includes President Masoud Pezeshkian, judiciary chief Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejehi and cleric Ayatollah Ali Reza Arafi.
The statement provides no timeline on the selection of the supreme leader, nor information on whether the Assembly of Experts would meet in person or remotely for the vote.
Buildings associated with the Assembly of Experts, an 88-member clerical panel, have been attacked during the Israeli-US airstrike campaign.
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