Iran’s Assembly of Experts says consensus reached on Khamenei’s successor
Al Jazeera
Officials say a candidate has been picked based on late supreme leader’s advice that he should be ‘hated by the enemy’.
The clerical body that will choose Iran’s next supreme leader, following the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has reached a majority consensus, according to Assembly of Experts member Ayatollah Mohammad-Mahdi Mirbagheri.
Iran’s Mehr news agency on Sunday quoted him as saying “some obstacles” still needed to be resolved regarding the process.
Under the Iranian constitution, it is the 88-member Assembly of Experts that is authorised to choose the country’s supreme leader.
Khamenei, who ruled Iran for 37 years, was killed in a United States-Israeli strike on Tehran on February 28, at the outset of the war which has now embroiled much of the Middle East.
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