Who is running Iran now?
Law enforcement shouldn't be political.
Iranian authorities have announced a three-member interim council to run the government amid the unprecedented joint U.S.-Israeli operations that took out both Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and several other senior officials.
The three council members will be Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian; the chief justice of the Supreme Court, Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei; and a member of the Guardian Council, Ayatollah Alireza Arafi. This decision is outlined in the country’s constitution.
It comes after the United States and Israel killed dozens of senior leaders in the opening salvo of the conflict on Saturday morning. In addition to killing Khamenei, the Israeli military intelligence directorate, Shlomi Binder, said they were “able to create tactical surprise, eliminating over 40 of the most important individuals in Iran in under 40 seconds.”
Khamenei had been in power since 1989 after being appointed by the 88-member clerical assembly, known as the Assembly of Experts, that holds the authority to appoint a new supreme leader, and that group will now need to figure out a successor.
The assembly has only picked a successor once after the 1979 Iranian Revolution, and that was after the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the supreme leader from 1979 until 1989.
There is also the possibility that any selected successor could become a target for new Israeli or U.S. strikes.
Prior to the current conflict, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was one of the most powerful, influential, and feared institutions in Iran, playing a significant role in the country’s projection of power both domestically and abroad.
The Guard, which has between 150,000-190,000 personnel, consists of ground, naval, and air forces; an internal security apparatus, an external operations force, and the Quds Force, which is responsible for the organization’s covert activities abroad, according to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s counterterrorism guide. The internal security entity, known as the Basij, is responsible for killing thousands of protesters in late 2025 and early 2026, which prompted international outrage.
President Donald Trump has also acknowledged that the U.S. does not know who is leading the country currently outside of the president, who had been in a deferential role to the supreme leader.
Trump told CNN, “We don’t know who the leadership is. We don’t know who they’ll pick. Maybe they’ll get lucky and get someone who knows what they’re doing,” and …
Law enforcement shouldn't be political.
Iranian authorities have announced a three-member interim council to run the government amid the unprecedented joint U.S.-Israeli operations that took out both Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and several other senior officials.
The three council members will be Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian; the chief justice of the Supreme Court, Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei; and a member of the Guardian Council, Ayatollah Alireza Arafi. This decision is outlined in the country’s constitution.
It comes after the United States and Israel killed dozens of senior leaders in the opening salvo of the conflict on Saturday morning. In addition to killing Khamenei, the Israeli military intelligence directorate, Shlomi Binder, said they were “able to create tactical surprise, eliminating over 40 of the most important individuals in Iran in under 40 seconds.”
Khamenei had been in power since 1989 after being appointed by the 88-member clerical assembly, known as the Assembly of Experts, that holds the authority to appoint a new supreme leader, and that group will now need to figure out a successor.
The assembly has only picked a successor once after the 1979 Iranian Revolution, and that was after the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the supreme leader from 1979 until 1989.
There is also the possibility that any selected successor could become a target for new Israeli or U.S. strikes.
Prior to the current conflict, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was one of the most powerful, influential, and feared institutions in Iran, playing a significant role in the country’s projection of power both domestically and abroad.
The Guard, which has between 150,000-190,000 personnel, consists of ground, naval, and air forces; an internal security apparatus, an external operations force, and the Quds Force, which is responsible for the organization’s covert activities abroad, according to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s counterterrorism guide. The internal security entity, known as the Basij, is responsible for killing thousands of protesters in late 2025 and early 2026, which prompted international outrage.
President Donald Trump has also acknowledged that the U.S. does not know who is leading the country currently outside of the president, who had been in a deferential role to the supreme leader.
Trump told CNN, “We don’t know who the leadership is. We don’t know who they’ll pick. Maybe they’ll get lucky and get someone who knows what they’re doing,” and …
Who is running Iran now?
Law enforcement shouldn't be political.
Iranian authorities have announced a three-member interim council to run the government amid the unprecedented joint U.S.-Israeli operations that took out both Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and several other senior officials.
The three council members will be Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian; the chief justice of the Supreme Court, Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei; and a member of the Guardian Council, Ayatollah Alireza Arafi. This decision is outlined in the country’s constitution.
It comes after the United States and Israel killed dozens of senior leaders in the opening salvo of the conflict on Saturday morning. In addition to killing Khamenei, the Israeli military intelligence directorate, Shlomi Binder, said they were “able to create tactical surprise, eliminating over 40 of the most important individuals in Iran in under 40 seconds.”
Khamenei had been in power since 1989 after being appointed by the 88-member clerical assembly, known as the Assembly of Experts, that holds the authority to appoint a new supreme leader, and that group will now need to figure out a successor.
The assembly has only picked a successor once after the 1979 Iranian Revolution, and that was after the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the supreme leader from 1979 until 1989.
There is also the possibility that any selected successor could become a target for new Israeli or U.S. strikes.
Prior to the current conflict, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was one of the most powerful, influential, and feared institutions in Iran, playing a significant role in the country’s projection of power both domestically and abroad.
The Guard, which has between 150,000-190,000 personnel, consists of ground, naval, and air forces; an internal security apparatus, an external operations force, and the Quds Force, which is responsible for the organization’s covert activities abroad, according to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s counterterrorism guide. The internal security entity, known as the Basij, is responsible for killing thousands of protesters in late 2025 and early 2026, which prompted international outrage.
President Donald Trump has also acknowledged that the U.S. does not know who is leading the country currently outside of the president, who had been in a deferential role to the supreme leader.
Trump told CNN, “We don’t know who the leadership is. We don’t know who they’ll pick. Maybe they’ll get lucky and get someone who knows what they’re doing,” and …
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