The interim management council of Iran has been fashioned following the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the nation’s supreme chief, Iranian state TV reported Sunday.
The interim management council will embrace Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, the pinnacle of the judiciary and Ayatollah Alireza Arafi, who was chosen because the consultant of the Guardian Council.
In keeping with the Islamic Republic structure, the Guardian Council consists of 12 members: six “faghihs,” or Islamic jurists, and 6 Muslim “specialists” in numerous areas of regulation.
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Pezeshkian — who sources informed ABC Information was focused in Saturday’s joint U.S.-Israel assault — resurfaced on Sunday on Iranian state TV. He mentioned that the interim management council has began its work following the demise of Khamenei.
Folks collect in Revolution Sq. to mourn the demise of Iran’s Supreme Chief who was killed in joint operation named Epic Fury by Israel and the U.S. in his residence a day earlier than, March 1, 2026 in Tehran, Iran.
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In a taped video message broadcast on the Iranian state TV, Pezeshkian mentioned that the armed forces of the Islamic Republic are “powerfully crushing the enemy’s bases.”
Secretary of the Supreme Nationwide Safety Council of Iran, Ali Larijani, appeared in a tv interview in Iran on Sunday and commented on the demise of Khamenei, saying, “The passing of an excellent character has wounded the hearts of all of us.”
Iran’s supreme chief, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei adjusts his eye glasses after voting at a polling station in Tehran, March 14, 2008.
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“People ought to know that by stabbing the hearts of the Iranian nation, their hearts will likely be stabbed,” Larijani mentioned. “What they did in a merciless manner in the direction of the Iranian management has angered the individuals a lot that they’ll by no means obtain their targets.”
He additionally mentioned a brief management council could be fashioned of the president, the pinnacle of the judiciary, and one of many jurists of the Guardian Council.
A spokesperson for the Guardian Council mentioned, “The nation’s structure gives for the present scenario and the management council will likely be in cost till the management is decided.”
In keeping with the regulation, the management should be decided as quickly as potential, given the warfare circumstances. Israel Protection Forces (IDF) mentioned 40 Iranian commanders had been additionally killed in Saturday’s assault that President Donald Trump described as a “huge and ongoing operation” towards Iran and its Center East proxies.
The IDF mentioned the Israeli Air Drive struck and eradicated seven members of the highest Iranian safety management who had gathered at a number of areas in Tehran.
Amongst these eradicated within the strikes was Abdolrahim Mousavi, who served as chief of workers of the armed forces, based on the IDF.
Mousavi served as one of many highest senior army rating officers and was the successor of Mohammad Bagheri, the chief of workers of the Iranian Armed Forces, who was killed within the opening strike of “Operation Rising Lion” in June 2025.
Nearly all of the highest-ranking senior army officers of the Iranian safety management had been additionally killed, the IDF mentioned.
