India, March 1 -- The Islamic Republic of Iran's constitution has a clause for extreme moments - such as when the Supreme Leader dies, or is assassinated as has happened in the case of Ali Khamenei.

A cleric, the President, and the Chief justice step in to hold the state together until a successor is found.

The cleric's position has now gone to Ayatollah Alireza Arafi, a man who could not win an election in 2016.

Arafi now sits in a provisional leadership council steering a country in crisis, following the killing of Ali Khamenei in a joint US-Israeli strike on Saturday. Alongside President Masoud Pezeshkian and Chief Justice Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i, he forms the leadership council that will exercise the Supreme Leader's duties un...