Tehran to elect new Ayatollah! Iranian assembly to meet within a day to decide

Iran's Assembly of Experts will meet within a day to elect a new supreme leader, according to assembly member Ayatollah Mozafari, quoted by Iranian media.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in the first US-Israeli attacks on Iran last weekend. Iran's supreme leader has the final say in all matters of state.

The 88-member assembly is deciding who will take over the role after Khamenei's assassination. Under Iran's system of vilayat-e faqih - guardianship of the Islamic jurist - the supreme leader must be a senior leader with political and religious authority.

A three-person leadership council was formed to govern the country on an interim basis immediately after the death of the supreme leader.

-Masoud Pezeshkian, the reformist president of Iran
-Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, the hardline head of the judiciary.
-Alireza Arafi, a lawyer and head of the Basij, a volunteer paramilitary force

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