Tehran, March 1 (IANS) Hours after long-time Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed in a US-Israeli airstrike, Iran on Sunday named Ayatollah Alireza Arafi as his interim successor.Ayatollah Khamenei, whose death in an attack on his residential compound in Tehran was announced by Iran, had been the Supreme Leader since 1989 after the passing away of the 1979 Iranian Islamic Revolution’s leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in 1989.After announcing his death, the government said that a three-memb…
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Tehran, March 1 (IANS) Iran’s security chief, Ali Larijani, stated on Sunday that the transition process following the assassination of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei will commence later in the day, according to reports from state media.Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, along with Chief Justice Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i and a member of the Guardian Council, a significant institution responsible for ensuring the coordination of legislation in accordance with Sharia law and the Irania…
Seoul, Feb 2 (IANS) The office of Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian has released a list naming 2,986 people killed during recent unrest in the country.In a statement posted on its website on Sunday (local time), the president’s office said the list, which includes both civilians and security personnel, was compiled from data provided by the Iranian Legal Medicine Organisation at Pezeshkian’s order.The office said the total death toll stands at 3,117, meaning 131 victims remain unidentified. It …