News Desk
TELAVIV/TEHRAN: Israeli media outlets have claimed that Mojtaba Khamenei, son of late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been selected as Iran’s new Supreme Leader.
The report has not yet been confirmed by Iranian officials. Earlier, Israeli sources had said that Iran’s 88-member Assembly of Experts was conducting an online vote to choose the successor, a process reportedly in its final stage.
The Assembly’s building in Qom had been targeted in a US-Israeli strike, but the site had been evacuated beforehand, preventing any casualties.
Meanwhile, plans for the late Ayatollah Khamenei’s funeral are underway. A large mourning gathering will be held at Imam Khomeini Hall in Tehran, while the burial in Mashhad has yet to be scheduled, according to Iranian news agencies.
The selection of Iran’s Supreme Leader is formally the responsibility of the Assembly of Experts (Majlis-e-Khobra), an 88-member body of senior clerics elected every eight years by the public to oversee the leadership of the Islamic Republic.
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