The clerical physique that can select Iran’s subsequent supreme chief, succeeding the slain Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has kind of reached a majority consensus, Meeting of Specialists member Ayatollah Mohammadmehdi Mirbaqeri stated on Sunday.
The Mehr information company quoted him as saying “some obstacles” nonetheless wanted to be resolved concerning the method.
On Saturday, a senior cleric within the Meeting of Specialists stated its members would meet “inside at some point” to decide on the chief.
NEXT SUPREME LEADER MUST ‘BE HATED BY THE ENEMY’
Two members of the panel, Ayatollah Mohsen Heidari Alekasir and Ahmad Alamolhoda, stated the meeting had chosen a successor, in accordance with Iranian media.
Alamolhoda stated the top of the meeting’s secretariat, Ayatollah Hashem Hosseini Bushehri, is accountable for asserting the meeting’s resolution.
Iranian media stated the group had a minor disagreement over whether or not they would want to satisfy in individual to difficulty their remaining resolution, or bypass this formality.
Heidari Alekasir stated in a video launched by Nournews on Sunday that an in-person assembly was not doable below present situations, suggesting at distant and written alternate options.
“That is a rare state of affairs, the meeting can not meet in a plenary,” he stated, including that focusing on the meeting would solely profit Iran’s enemies and “hurt the revolution.”
For the reason that battle started on February 28, Israeli and US strikes have killed dozens of officers and commanders, together with Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, with Iranian media reporting on Tuesday that strikes flattened an auxiliary constructing of the Meeting of Specialists within the metropolis of Qom.
Heidari Alekasir stated the candidate had been picked primarily based on the late supreme chief’s recommendation that Iran’s high chief ought to “be hated by the enemy” as a substitute of praised by it.
“Even the Nice Devil (US) has talked about his identify,” the senior cleric stated of the chosen successor, days after US President Donald Trump stated Khamenei’s son, Mojtaba Khamenei, was an “unacceptable” selection for him.
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Trump stated on Thursday that the youthful Khamenei, a mid-ranking hard-line cleric, was the most definitely successor, in accordance with Axios, however warned he would reject such an choice and that he ought to be personally concerned in choosing Iran’s subsequent chief.
Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, was not in Tehran when his father was killed by air strikes early within the battle, an Iranian supply instructed Reuters on Wednesday.
He has shut ties to Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards and is among the most influential figures within the Iranian clerical institution, due to the affect he constructed behind the scenes and his position as his father’s gatekeeper, in accordance with individuals aware of the matter.
He has for years been seen as one of many high candidates to succeed the elder Khamenei, regardless of by no means holding a authorities place, apart from working in his father’s workplace.
Ali Khamenei dominated Iran from 1989 as supreme chief after serving as president for almost eight years.
Mojtaba Khamenei was a specific goal for criticism by protesters throughout unrest over the dying of a younger lady in police custody in 2022, after she was arrested for allegedly breaching the Islamic Republic’s strict gown codes.
He’s seen as having leverage over Iran’s safety equipment, which has repressed a number of waves of protests lately.
