The interim management council of Iran has been fashioned following the demise of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the nation’s supreme chief, Iranian state TV reported Sunday.
The interim management council will embody Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, the top of the judiciary and Ayatollah Alireza Arafi, who was chosen because the consultant of the Guardian Council.
In response to the Islamic Republic structure, the Guardian Council consists of 12 members: six “faghihs,” or Islamic jurists, and 6 Muslim “consultants” in varied areas of regulation.
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Pezeshkian — who sources instructed ABC Information was focused in Saturday’s joint U.S.-Israel assault — resurfaced on Sunday on Iranian state TV. He mentioned that the interim management council has began its work following the demise of Khamenei.
Individuals collect in Revolution Sq. to mourn the demise of Iran’s Supreme Chief who was killed in joint operation named Epic Fury by Israel and the U.S. in his residence a day earlier than, March 1, 2026 in Tehran, Iran.
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In a taped video message broadcast on the Iranian state TV, Pezeshkian mentioned that the armed forces of the Islamic Republic are “powerfully crushing the enemy’s bases.”
Secretary of the Supreme Nationwide Safety Council of Iran, Ali Larijani, appeared in a tv interview in Iran on Sunday and commented on the demise of Khamenei, saying, “The passing of an awesome persona has wounded the hearts of all of us.”
Iran’s supreme chief, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei adjusts his eye glasses after voting at a polling station in Tehran, March 14, 2008.
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“People ought to know that by stabbing the hearts of the Iranian nation, their hearts will probably be stabbed,” Larijani mentioned. “What they did in a merciless method in direction of the Iranian management has angered the folks a lot that they may by no means obtain their targets.”
He additionally mentioned a short lived management council can be fashioned of the president, the top of the judiciary, and one of many jurists of the Guardian Council.
A spokesperson for the Guardian Council mentioned, “The nation’s structure supplies for the present scenario and the management council will probably be in cost till the management is set.”
In response to the regulation, the management have to be decided as quickly as doable, given the conflict circumstances. Israel Protection Forces (IDF) mentioned 40 Iranian commanders had been additionally killed in Saturday’s assault that President Donald Trump described as a “large and ongoing operation” in opposition to Iran and its Center East proxies.
The IDF mentioned the Israeli Air Pressure struck and eradicated seven members of the highest Iranian safety management who had gathered at a number of places in Tehran.
Amongst these eradicated within the strikes was Abdolrahim Mousavi, who served as chief of employees of the armed forces, in keeping with the IDF.
Mousavi served as one of many highest senior navy rating officers and was the successor of Mohammad Bagheri, the chief of employees of the Iranian Armed Forces, who was killed within the opening strike of “Operation Rising Lion” in June 2025.
Nearly all of the highest-ranking senior navy officers of the Iranian safety management had been additionally killed, the IDF mentioned.
