The Iranian president, the head of the judiciary, and a cleric of the Guardian Council will govern Iran until a new Supreme Leader is chosen
News Desk - The Cradle
Arafi will join President Masoud Pezeshkian and Supreme Court Chief Justice Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei to form a Temporary Leadership Council so that the country's governance can continue uninterrupted until a new Supreme Leader is elected, Tasnim added.
"According to Article 111 of the Constitution, until a new leader is determined, a temporary leadership council consisting of the president, the head of the judiciary, and one of the jurists of the Guardian Council will be formed," wrote Mohsen Dehnavi, spokesman for the Expediency Discernment Council, on X.
The 67-year-old Arafi is from Maybod, Iran. Since 2019, he has served as a member of Iran's 12-member Guardian Council, which acts as an upper legislative house.
Its members include specialists in Islamic canon law appointed and civil jurists. The council reviews all legislation passed by the Parliament to determine its constitutionality.
Arafi has also served as head of Iran's seminaries since 2016, and as the Friday Prayer Imam of Qom, an important Iranian religious center, since 2015.
Supreme Leader Khamenei was assassinated on Saturday when Israeli warplanes dropped 30 bombs on his compound in Tehran, where he had gathered with other top leaders for a security meeting, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The strike also killed Ali Shamkhani, a top security adviser to Khamenei, Mohammad Pakpour, commander of the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and Defense Minister Amir Nasirzadeh.
In the wake of the killings, Ali Larijani, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, is playing a prominent role in leading Iran's response to the joint US-Israeli attack.
"Yesterday, Iranian missiles were fired at the United States and Israel, and it was painful. Today, they will be fired even more painfully," Larijani wrote on X on Sunday.
On Saturday, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched Operation True Promise 4, hitting targets in Israel and US bases in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, and Bahrain. Iran also continued its strikes on Sunday, targeting Duqm Port in Oman.
The IRGC issued a statement saying it had struck 27 locations linked to US bases, in addition to the Israeli military's general headquarters at HaKirya, the Tel Nof Airbase, and a major defense industrial complex in Tel Aviv.
Iran's armed forces "will not allow the sound of sirens to cease in the occupied territories and at US bases," the IRGC warned.
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