Newly Appointed Iranian Cleric Makes First Comments
2 March 2026 5:29 PM IST2 March 2026 5:29 PM IST
In remarks aired on state television, Arafi said he hoped that a new supreme leader would be “quickly” appointed
Alireza Arafi. (Image By Arrangement)
Iranian cleric Alireza Arafi has delivered some of his first public remarks since he was made a member of Iran’s temporary leadership council.
In remarks aired on state television, Arafi said he hoped that a new supreme leader would be “quickly” appointed. The 88-seat Assembly of Experts, a group of mostly hard-line clerics, will choose a replacement for Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who was killed in U.S.-Israeli airstrikes. But no clear successor is in place.
Arafi is serving on a temporary leadership council that includes President Masoud Pezeshkian and Iran’s hard-line judiciary chief, Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei. Arafi said that state institutions continue to function “under these extremely difficult circumstances.”
( Source : AP )
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