The interim leadership council of Iran has been formed following the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iranian state TV reported Sunday.<\/p>\n
According to the Islamic Republic’s constitution, the interim leadership council is comprised of the president, the head of the judiciary and one of the members of the six “faghihs” – Islamic jurists who are scholars of Islamic law – of the Guardian Council.<\/p>\n
Kian Tajbakhsh, adjunct professor of urban policy at Columbia University, discusses Iran’s next steps to establish new leadership.<\/p>\n
According to the spokesperson for Iran’s Guardian Council, since the faghih member of the Guardian Council to join the interim leadership council has been chosen, the leadership council is already formed.<\/p>\n
“The constitution provides for the current situation and the Leadership Council will be in charge until the leadership is determined,” the Guardian Council spokesman said on state TV.<\/p>\n
According to the law, the leadership must be determined as soon as possible, given the war conditions, according to a post on Iranian state TV’s Telegram account.<\/p>\n
-ABC News’ Somayeh Malekian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The interim leadership council of Iran has been formed following the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[227422,23,194400,801,227415,227407,227420,227417,227414,227411,166398,227419,166404,227410,220428,227406,227416,3,227413,227408,153670,227421,227405,21,19,22,20,227418,25,205757,96390,24,227412,227409],"class_list":{"0":"post-497795","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-227422","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-ayatollah-ali-khamenei","11":"tag-iran","12":"tag-iran-attack","13":"tag-iran-israel","14":"tag-iran-latest","15":"tag-iran-latest-news","16":"tag-iran-leader","17":"tag-iran-leader-death","18":"tag-iran-news","19":"tag-iran-update","20":"tag-iran-us","21":"tag-is-irans-leader-dead","22":"tag-israel-iran","23":"tag-israel-us","24":"tag-khamenei-dead","25":"tag-news","26":"tag-news-iran","27":"tag-supreme-leader-ayatollah-ali-khamenei","28":"tag-tehran","29":"tag-tehran-attack","30":"tag-tehran-iran","31":"tag-united-states","32":"tag-united-states-of-america","33":"tag-unitedstates","34":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","35":"tag-update-on-iran-war","36":"tag-us","37":"tag-us-iran","38":"tag-us-israel","39":"tag-usa","40":"tag-war-iran","41":"tag-why-is-iran-attacking-dubai"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}