A governing council has taken power in Iran following the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as the Islamic Republic’s Revolutionary Guard threatened an unprecedented military strike against Israel and U.S. targets.
Iranian law mandates the formation of a three-person leadership council – composed of the sitting president, the head of the judiciary, and a member of the Guardian Council selected by the Expediency Council – to govern until a new supreme leader is named.
Reformist President Masoud Pezeshkian and hardline judiciary chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei are among those serving on the body.
Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard warned Sunday that “the most intense offensive operation in the history of the armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran will begin in moments, targeting Israel and American terrorist bases.”
State media also reported the head of the Revolutionary Guard and a top security adviser were killed in the U.S.-Israeli strikes that took Khamenei’s life.
Under Iranian law, the Assembly of Experts must select a new supreme leader “as soon as possible.”
(Miami Herald)
