Iran’s Assembly of Experts on Sunday (local time) said that the 88-member body has reached a decision regarding the next supreme leader of the country, without naming the candidate selected, CNN reported.
The development comes days after Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in strikes launched by the United States and Israel on 28 February, targeting key military and naval forces in Tehran. Along with Khamenei, several other clerics and ministers have also been killed in the conflict, which has now entered its ninth day.
Citing a senior cleric in the 88-member Assembly of Experts, the report said, “The elections for the leadership have been held, and the leader has been appointed.” The cleric, Ayatollah Ahmad Alam al-Hoda, also said that the rumors that tried to pretend that the Assembly of Experts had not yet made a decision are “pure lies.”
This is a breaking story. More developments awaited.
