Iran has formed a temporary three-member leadership council after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in a joint U.S.-Israeli attack. The interim council includes President Masoud Pezeshkian, judiciary chief Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei and senior cleric Alireza Arafi, who is serving as the Guardian Council’s representative.

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Who rules Iran next? Succession scramble after Khamenei’s death

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Iran forms an interim leadership council after Ayatollah Khamenei’s death as U.S.-Israeli strikes eliminate forty senior military commanders.

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