In first remarks, newly appointed Iranian cleric says new supreme leader to be chosen soon

Iranian cleric Alireza Arafi has delivered some of his first public remarks since he was made a member of Iran’s temporary leadership council. In remarks aired on state television, Arafi says he hopes that a new supreme leader will be “quickly” appointed.

The 88-seat Assembly of Experts, a group of mostly hardline clerics, will choose a replacement for supreme leader Ali Khameini, who was killed Saturday. But no clear successor is in place.

Arafi is serving on a temporary leadership council that includes President Masoud Pezeshkian and Iran’s hardline judiciary chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei. Arafi added that state institutions were continuing to function “under these extremely difficult circumstances.”

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