Iranian state media reported Sunday that Ali Reza Arafi, a senior cleric and member of the Guardian Council, has been appointed to a three-member interim body that will assume the duties of the country’s supreme leader following the death of Ali Khamenei.
According to the reports, the temporary council consists of President Masoud Pezeshkian, Judiciary Chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei and Arafi. The body will exercise the powers of the supreme leader until the Assembly of Experts selects a permanent successor.
