Top Cleric Appointed to Interim Council Amid Leadership Transition in Iran

Tehran: Iran has selected a 66-year-old cleric to join the three-member leadership council that will govern the country until a new supreme leader is chosen. Ayatollah Ali Reza Arafi has been a member of both the Guardian Council and the Assembly of Experts, the constitutional body responsible for appointing the country’s supreme leader. He was handpicked in 2019 by late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to serve on the Guardian Council. He joins President Masoud Pezeshkian and Judiciary Chief Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejehei on the interim council, which will oversee the country’s affairs until the Assembly of Experts selects the

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