Hyderabad, March 1 -- A day after the assassination of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran, on Sunday, March 1, announced Alireza Arafi as the interim Ayatollah to its supreme council.

The 67-year-old Shia cleric, a member of the Guardian Council, was inducted overnight in the interim Leadership Council comprising President Masoud Pezeshkian and Chief Justice Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei.

Expediency Council spokesman Mohsen Dehnavi took to X to announce Arafi's appointment. "The Expediency Discernment Council has elected Ayatollah Alireza Arafi as a member of the interim leadership council."

Khamenei was confident about Arafi

Born in 1959 in Meybod in the central Iranian province of Yazd, Alireza Arafi comes from a family of Isl...